Create an environment where crimes are not covered up and must be punished”…Johnny’s issue, a criminologist’s view.

The actual number of “sex victims” is seven times greater than the number of reported victims or…

In May, a former Johnny’s’s talent testified before the Diet that he had been sexually abused by the late Mr. Kitagawa, a former member of Johnny’s’s office. The issue of sexual assault at Johnny’s has been making headlines,

I am sure that something similar is happening in various places.

says criminologist Nobuo Komiya. According to the results related to “sexual victimization” of the “Crime Victimization (Dark Number) Survey” conducted by the Ministry of Justice, which sent questionnaires to atrandoms to investigate the situation, there are about 700,000 people who said they had been sexually victimized. Of these, only 14% reported their victimization to the police, meaning that out of the 700,000 sexual victims, only 100,000 reported their victimization.

Of the 700,000 sexual victims, only 100,000 filed reports. “Seven times as many people who actually filed reports were sexually victimized. One of the reasons for the lack of victim reports appears to be a cover-up by the organization. Moreover, this survey was conducted on people 16 years of age and older. According to the complaint of a former talent belonging to Johnny’s’s office, he was an elementary school student when he was victimized. If the survey were to cover elementary school students as well, this figure would be 20 to 30 times higher.

For example, if a person is sexually harassed by the president of a company but does not report it, it is not counted as a crime.

Even if you report it to your boss, the issue is not brought to the surface, and the matter is swept under the rug within the organization. It is believed that the cover-up nature of Japan has led to the low number of damage reports. The same goes for bullying, corporal punishment, inmate abuse, and food fraud.”

People say that Japan is a safe country,

The number of crimes is certainly low, but the suicide rate is very high. However, the suicide rate is very high.

People who are sexually harassed sometimes commit suicide without reporting the incident. The number of crimes recognized and the number of suicides combined may be a more correct figure to evaluate the safety of a country. When you think about it that way, we are by no means a safe country.”

The time has come to finally speak out…

Nowadays, “compliance” is being called for, but does that not stop the cover-ups within organizations?

Since people started talking about compliance, things have gradually begun to change. People who have been crying themselves to sleep have only gradually begun to speak out.

Speaking of which, various incidents have surfaced, such as an incident in which a coach forced a member of the American football team at Nihon University to make a dangerous tackle, wrestler Kaoru Icho filing a complaint that she was subjected to power harassment, and a former member of the Self-Defense Forces suing a woman for sexual harassment.

I think this issue with Johnny’s is probably part of that trend.

When it is no longer possible to cover up crimes within an organization, will criminals turn outside?

From now on, it will be harder to cover up crimes within an organization. One would think that this would reduce the number of victims,

But, as one of the members of the “SECURITY” section said, “Sexual harassment and akaharasare both caused by people in power who act inappropriately toward those below them. What happens when these people can no longer wield such power within the organization? They turn outside.”

For example, customer harassment occurs when a person who has held a high position in a company retires and no longer has a place of authority, and then acts in a high-handed manner toward store clerks in a store. This is also thought to be caused by people who can no longer wield power within the organization, but instead wield it externally.

Will people who have committed sex crimes inside the company start to do it outside?　Molestation, voyeurism, maybe even rape?　Then, no matter how much they cry for compliance, it won’t help, will it?

Unfortunately, criminal tendencies do not disappear so easily. That’s why we need to create a town where criminal opportunities are eliminated and an environment where it is easy to speak out.

In ’00, the Johnny’s office was also involved in a case in which a former member of the company had been sexually assaulted. At that time, the Tokyo High Court acknowledged the fact that sexual assault had occurred, and ordered the Johnny’s office and Mr. Kitagawa to pay compensation. Yet the same thing continued to happen, Komiya says, because there was no system of mutual monitoring.

People who commit sex crimes are kind of sick,” he said. In some foreign countries, sex offenders are required to wear GPS devices, and this is being considered in Japan.

Some say it is a violation of human rights, but for those who are fitted, it is seen as a positive thing because they can be stopped before they commit a crime. Within organizations, traceability (history management) and digital forensics (electromagnetic evidence collection) must be thoroughly implemented.”

And a consultation service that is accessible to all must be created.

“We need to create an easy route for people who have been victimized to file a complaint. It would be good to make it possible to consult via e-mail or chat.

What is important in this process is to make sure that information from victims is never leaked. If there is a victim protection program, as there is in other countries, I think victims would feel more comfortable discussing their concerns with us.”

In the case of Johnny’s, a “special team of outside experts to prevent recurrence” was created, consisting of a former attorney general, a psychiatrist, and others, and he says it is also important to establish such a third-party committee.

He said it is also important to establish such a third-party committee. “If a crime is committed, it will not be covered up, and it will definitely be punished. I believe that such a system will deter crime.

Nobuo Komiya is a professor at Rissho University. D. in sociology. He was the first Japanese to complete graduate studies in criminology at the University of Cambridge. After working at the United Nations Institute for Far East Crime Prevention in Asia and the Ministry of Justice, he was appointed to his current position. He has served as the chairman of the National Police Agency’s Research and Study Group on Safe and Secure Community Development and as the chairman of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s Delinquency Prevention and Victimization Prevention Education Committee. He is the author of a book titled “Photo de tsukuru sekai no crime prevention: Ruins, Design, and Community Planning” (Shogakukan). He has appeared on television, been interviewed by newspapers, and given numerous lectures throughout Japan.

Click here for his websiteand YouTube channel “Nobuo Komiya’s Room of Criminology.

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