Victims of sexual violence in Japan contacted support centers for help on more than 23,000 occasions between April and September, up 15.5 percent from a year earlier, partly due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, a Cabinet minister said Friday.Support centers for those impacted by sexual assault set up in each of Japan's 47 prefectures were contacted via phone, email or in person a total of 23,050 times, Seiko Hashimoto, minister in charge of gender equality, said at a press conference."More people need to understand how many women have been victimized in sexual assaults amid the pa…READ FULL ARTICLE
