Social Democratic Party's lawmaker Mizuho Fukushima poses with the #MeToo banner during an interview with Reuters in Tokyo, Japan, April 24, 2018. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese women, long accustomed to enduring sexual harassment in silence, are speaking out after a high-profile scandal involving a top bureaucrat stirred debate and protests.
In interviews with Reuters, six prominent women said they hoped Japan was at a turning point in attitudes towards harassment, but urged steps to shrink social, political and economic gender gaps to get at the root causes of the problem.
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