Sendai, Miyagi Pref. – A Floor Self-Protection Drive member in his 30s revealed Tuesday that his post-traumatic stress dysfunction, attributable to harassment, has been acknowledged as an on-duty sickness.
Since becoming a member of the Self-Protection Forces in 2006, the male member mentioned he had been compelled by a number of senior colleagues to put on girls’s clothes and to show his decrease physique at a GSDF camp in Miyagi Prefecture.
At a information convention in Sendai, the capital of the northeastern prefecture, the person mentioned that the choice to acknowledge the PTSD as an on-duty sickness was made by the commanding basic of the GSDF’s Northeastern Military on Thursday.
The person was identified with adjustment dysfunction and PTSD at an SDF hospital in 2023 and 2024, and has repeatedly taken leaves of absence and been hospitalized.
The choice “is extraordinarily significant, particularly to these struggling below comparable circumstances,” he mentioned.
Relating to the case, the GSDF member has filed a lawsuit with Sendai District Courtroom, demanding the central authorities and others pay him some ¥10 million in damages.
