Rina Gonoi

[2] Gonoi for the first time encountered JGSDF officers conducting humanitarian operations: smartly dressed, they helped displaced people prepare makeshift bathing booths, and served them warm water, food and other necessities.

[4] Gonoi specially admired the female officers and developed an interest in joining the JGSDF so that one day she could also help people in trouble.

[2] The worst incident happened during an August 2021 training exercise when a group of three officers, Shutaro Shibuya, Ryoto Sekine, and Yusuke Kimezawa are summoned her to a tent where they were drinking.

In the process they pinned her to a bed, spread her legs open, and pressed their crotches against her in a sexual simulation in front of dozens of other watching and laughing colleagues.

Her social media campaign forced the military authority to probe sexual assaults in the entire JGSDF and her own case was reopened with a fresh investigation.

[6][7] Not satisfied with the apology from military authorities, Gonoi filed both criminal and civil cases against the government and the alleged assault perpetrators.