From childhood, Rina Gonoi dreamed of joining Japan’s military. But as an adult, she has gone to war against the institution over sexual abuse she was subjected to by fellow soldiers.
It’s not the life the slight 23-year-old imagined, but the decision to go public with her experience and battle the military for justice has been explosive.
“If this were just for me, I might have stopped, but I carry on my shoulders the hopes of so many others, so I feel I have to do my best,” she told AFP.She says she experienced harassment daily after joining the military in 2020.“I was kissed on the cheek, and my breasts were grabbed.” Gonoi was particularly moved by female SDF members who helped prepare makeshift bathing facilities for displaced survivors without homes.“I came to think that someday, I would like to become like them and work for other people” in trouble.
“I witnessed assaults of senior female members with my own eyes, and I didn’t want them to be deserted,” or for new troops to “suffer the same experience”, she said.Over 100,000 people signed a petition she submitted in August to the defence ministry seeking an independent probe.
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