As Japan embarks on a major military buildup, it’s struggling to fill its ranks with the women that its forces need and its policy-makers have pledged to recruit. Following a wave of sexual harassment cases, the number of women applying to join the Self-Defence Forces (SDF) decreased by 12% in the year ending March 2023, after several years of steady growth.…

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