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Sexual Harassment: The Emergence of Legal Consciousness in Japan and the US

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Chika Shinohara  and
Christopher Uggen
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In 2008, 8,140 women working in Japan brought sexual harassment or sekuhara claims to prefectural equal employment opportunity (EEO) offices. This represents 64% of the 12,782 EEO related reports that women made to regional governments – a large increase since 2005. Sekuhara in fact is the largest discrimination concern reported to EEO offices among employed women in Japan today. These numbers do not simply reflect difficult employment conditions women face, but also provide evidence of growing legal consciousness among working women in response to broader legal and social change. How does such sekuhara consciousness emerge?

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 7 , Issue 31 , August 2009 , e2
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