One in 10 Japanese women has been harassed or stalked, and 24 percent of wives and 17 percent of husbands have been victims of spousal abuse, two separate studies said Friday.

The findings in the first study, the first of its kind to be conducted by the Cabinet Office, were derived from a December poll of adult men and women that drew 3,544 valid responses.

Of the respondents, 11 percent of women and 4 percent of men said they had been harassed by people of the opposite sex.