Sexual Harassment Cited in Japan

More faculty and technical-staff members at Japanese national universities were punished for sexual harassment last year than ever before, government education officials report.

In 2001, 32 professors and other teaching-staff members at the 101 state-run universities were punished for sexually harassing students, compared with 11 in 2000, according to a report from the Ministry of Education, Sports, Culture, Science, and Technology. Fifteen of the 32 received strong disciplinary

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