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On sex harassment complaint, Finance Minister Taro Aso objects to font size
When asked about a complaint from a Japanese TV station that the most senior official at his ministry sexually harassed a reporter, Finance Minister Taro Aso said the font used on the complaint letter was too small. The scandal broke last week when a magazine ...
Sticking to his guns, Aso says he won't quit over sex harassment scandal
Finance Minister Taro Aso says in Washington that he has no intention of resigning over a sexual harassment scandal that has claimed his ministry’s top official.
The parties stepped up political pressure on Finance Minister Taro Aso to resign immediately, after the official implicated in the allegations quit abruptly over the claims the day before.
In a fresh blow to the scandal-hit Abe administration, the Finance Ministry's top bureaucrat, Administrative Vice Minister Junichi Fukuda, was forced to step down Wednesday after a weekly magazine publicized last week a voice recording of what it claimed was him sexually harassing a ...
Japan ministers question fairness of Finance Ministry's sexual harassment probe
Cabinet members blast the investigation after the ministry requested that victims come forward and speak to lawyers over allegations of top bureaucrat’s conduct.
The ministry says it will ask an independent lawyer to continue investigating the bureaucrat’s denials and the allegations made by Shukan Shincho magazine.
Finance Ministry won't investigate bureaucrat alleged to have sexually harassed female reporters
Finance Minister Taro Aso has opted not to investigate or punish the ministry's top bureaucrat over allegations he sexually harassed female journalists, saying he has shown sufficient remorse. The Shukan Shincho magazine this week reported that Junichi Fukuda, administrative vice finance minister, had sexually harassed ...
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Japan struggles to overcome its groping problem
A group of men boarded the women-only car of the Chiyoda Line subway in Tokyo during the morning commute on Feb. 16 as a form of protest, saying that excluding men was a form of discrimination. Such protests are not unusual, but the media ...
The mayor of Komae, western Tokyo, was asked by members of the city assembly Monday to call in outsiders to investigate allegations that he sexually harassed female workers at the municipal office. In a letter addressed to Komae Mayor Kunihiko Takahashi, the six assembly members ...
Confusing power with powerlessness
"We're all terrified. It's like living in a mass grave." It's an underground shelter. "No water, no food, no ventilation, no toilets. Explosion after explosion. It never stops." The civil war in Syria grinds on. Noncombatants are powerless, helpless, living as if dead, if not ...
South Korea shuts famed 84-year-old poet's exhibition amid sex harassment claims by rival
South Korea's capital has closed an exhibition by poet Ko Un, long the country's hope for a Nobel Prize in literature, amid allegations of sexual misconduct and the government is considering removing his work from textbooks. Ko Un, 84, who denied any "habitual misconduct" in ...
