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WORLD● LOW1h ago · Oct 4, 2026, 1:30 AM

Name and shame: Japan’s tame answer to jobseeker sex harassment

South China Morning Post · east asia

Final-year students invited to recruiters’ apartments for help with their applications. Coffee dates with alumni who promise to explain how the company works. Inappropriate interview questions about boyfriends, marriage plans and sex lives. For young women in Japan, looking for a job has long entailed submitting themselves to the skewed power dynamics of the recruitment process. And before Thursday, no official legal safeguards existed to protect these jobseekers from such...

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