Hideo Kojima stepped down in March last year after an official investigation accused him of incidents of harassment in the town in central Gifu region, including touching a colleague's breasts and buttocks.
“It proves residents trust me,“ Kojima, 75, told a local TV network on Monday, and warned: “Don’t ever mention (sexual harassment claims) again.”
“So voters in the town don’t care about employees who were sexually harassed? Shame on you,“ one user said on X.
At a press conference last year, he denied some cases and wiped away tears as described his brother scolding him.
During its investigation, the committee conducted a survey among 193 workers in Kojima's municipality.
According to broadcaster NHK, Kojima said he had not read the whole report, which alleged that he would tell subordinates that “his hands were fair and smooth... to force female employees to touch them”.
Some workers used disinfectant spray after being touched, the report said, also detailing inappropriate remarks and demands such as asking an employee to bend over.
Kojima said this had been meant to “express gratitude”.
The country ranked at 118th among 148 nations in the World Economic Forum's gender gap index in 2025.
The global #MeToo movement was slow to pick up in Japan, where many victims are said to be too scared to come forward, but a handful of high-profile cases have recently forced a reckoning - AFP
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