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Article: `Sekuhara' Japanese women speak out on sexual harassment at work
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 5, 1996
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In the six months that Chieko Mitome had held a low-level office
job at a Japanese company, she had heard male employees make lots of
references to the size of her breasts. Still, she was mortified when
one day her boss declared, as she was serving tea to five visitors,
"See this woman who works for me she has big breasts!"
Such behavior is an old story in Japan. But Mitome's response
was not. Rather than suffer quietly, she complained to a company
official. He assured her that her boss would be reprimanded. Then,
as she requested, she was transferred to another division. "About
my harasser, I hear that he's behaving himself," Mitome said.
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