Conference papers

Decisions not to report sexual assault in Japan

John Dussich, Yoshiko Fujiwara and Asami Sagisaka
Tokiwa University, Japan

Published in:
International victimology : selected papers from the 8th International Symposium : proceedings of a symposium held 21-26 August 1994
Chris Sumner, Mark Israel, Michael O'Connell and Rick Sarre (eds.)
ISBN 0 642 24008 6 ; ISSN 1034-5086
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 1996

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Abstract

This paper investigates enormous under reporting of rape in Japan, as well as the lack of official interest in its true extent. In Japan there is a dominant perception that rape is a personal rather than a social problem. Partly as a result of this, there is minimal support for survivors of rape and they suffer "tertiary victimisation", in the form of rape trauma syndrome.