An employee (male, 50) from the Tochigi Prefecture Animal Care & Control Center committed suicide due to power harassment at work, according to external sources. The prefecture conduted an internal investigation and held a press conference on the 27th. The head of the center (male, 58), had stated the employee "lacked consideration during meetings," and given the employee verbal reprimands for the Health and Welfare Department head. He claimed to "not recognize" any sort of power harassment.
The internal investigation did not acknowledge any power harassment. They questioned a total of 28 employees. The questioning did not show any signs of power harassment in the workplace, apparently.
But you know, I heard this: that he had beer poured over his head a work drinking parties. That he wasn't asked once to show his cell phone.
His work certainly has a gag rule, so they couldn't say anything. If they admitted to believing that Yamazaki-san was under pressure from his boss, they would be put in danger themselves. This is clear, isn't it? In other words, this internal investigation was carried out just for show and to make a lot of noise. They knew that no one would come forth. Yamazaki-san died, so clearly they can't verify his side of the story, so we just need to trust the prefecture, don't we?
Yamazaki-san "lacked consideration"? Verbal reprimands? What does this all mean? Like "Hey, be careful!" "Okay, I will," and that's it? One more person is gone from this world!
The results don't sit with me, and the governor won't hold a meeting...
It's so clear that the prefecture wants to just sweep this all under the rug. They're not responding to the petition against them with numerous individual and group names working in the prefecture.
Is this it...? So nothing's changing, then, is that it? We can't report this in front of his tombstone.

