The Supreme Public Prosecutors Office will conduct a harassment survey of prosecutors and other employees nationwide, following a sexual assault case involving a former head of the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office.<\/p>\n
The supreme office issued related instructions to local prosecutor offices across the country last month and plans to compile a report by the end of fiscal 2026.<\/p>\n
This was revealed by Justice Minister Hiroshi Hiraguchi at a news conference on Friday. \u201cWe are considering further concrete measures to improve the workplace environment,\u201d Hiraguchi said.<\/p>\n
In the high-profile case, Kentaro Kitagawa, 66, is on trial for allegedly sexually assaulting a female subordinate prosecutor.<\/p>\n
In March, the female prosecutor submitted a petition to the justice minister and the prosecutor-general, requesting the launch of an independent investigative panel and a harassment survey covering all employees at prosecutor offices.<\/p>\n
However, she resigned at the end of April, suggesting that her petition was ignored.<\/p>\n
On Friday, she issued a statement arguing that a harassment survey by the top prosecutor office is pointless and calling for a third-party committee to conduct a fair and neutral survey.<\/p>\n
During the day\u2019s press conference, Hiraguchi noted that establishing a third-party committee could cause problems in terms of the independence of the judiciary, as Kitagawa\u2019s criminal trial is ongoing. \u201cIt requires extremely careful consideration,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Supreme Public Prosecutors Office will conduct a harassment survey of prosecutors and other employees nationwide, following a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8,708,994,85,27221,4399,11351],"class_list":["post-36595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-japan","tag-japanese-courts","tag-japanese-police","tag-osaka","tag-rape","tag-sex-crimes","tag-sexual-harassment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}