She joined Japan's Self-Defence Forces after watching soldiers help survivors of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. She wanted to defend her country.
Instead her colleagues assaulted her daily for over a year. In 2021 three of them pinned her down in front of dozens of watching laughing colleagues. She reported it up the chain of command. Two investigations launched. Both dropped for lack of evidence. Every male colleague who had watched refused to testify. TV stations ignored her. So she posted her story on YouTube.
The video went viral. 100,000 people signed her petition. The Ministry of Defence issued a public apology. Five soldiers dishonourably dismissed. An investigation uncovered over 1,000 other harassment complaints across the entire military. Three soldiers convicted in December 2023. Japanese government settled her civil lawsuit in January 2026.
She was named on the BBC's 100 most influential women in the world. Time magazine put her on their Next 100 list.
Her name is Rina Gonoi. She was 24 years old when she brought Japan's military to its knees.
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Signed,
An epidemiologist
pls dont hate watch this, dont even pirate it and then tweet about it, dont review bomb it on lb/ other places bc i feel like bad press is still press so they are gonna come out with more shit like this
Anyone else stuck in this weird cycle where work is so exhausting that your hobbies feel like too much work, so you don’t do them, and then you go back to work upset that you didn’t take time to do the things you enjoy?
Yes. If you care about my sexual health solely, you’d just ask me for a full screening test. If you directly ask me my body counts, typically before men even ask for std results, you’re asking to gauge the level of respect you’re going to give me.