{"id":173474,"date":"2018-07-27T00:18:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T04:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=173474"},"modified":"2018-07-27T00:18:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T04:18:42","slug":"japan-harassment-website-takes-complaints-to-extremes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/27\/japan-harassment-website-takes-complaints-to-extremes\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan harassment website takes complaints to extremes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_98580\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98580\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/7875018908_78bf51b288_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98580\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/7875018908_78bf51b288_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/7875018908_78bf51b288_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/7875018908_78bf51b288_z-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Japanese start-up takes the concept to extremes with a website that lets people complain anonymously to those who offend them in a variety of ways, including excessively strong perfume.<br \/>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/inu-photo\/7875018908\/in\/photolist-cZTwL5-7tqToN-5pVLJd-pPVdB8-b5qz3M-4wFJWJ-6zbmXJ-4eACfg-ozC5NT-yyVwRf-5XtzpY-JfNwx-T8DEjS-9KWQ5a-8ZL2iT-dnKxWK-4yURaW-pACXXE-SnGHq9-49SF9v-4tsp9R-RSC7XX-qukXRe-SnGHi5-dtZeD3-qRKw1f-4jQUB-9JJmYz-jvHM2Q-mYL7wr-7iYW8Z-7fdHyf-5ZAUDS-9KZDCS-6wDj3V-djDZwj-9pXCVT-b8Vjdx-2i1UmG-8ypAT7-qsm2Ei-3aejuf-hNcGgZ-dNyZW8-qKxD9-agZ6pt-9Bf5CJ-6zGL6-9qvYxn-68tNV\">Photo: inu-photo\/ Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TOKYO \u2014 In the #MeToo era, companies, colleges and support groups are devising all sorts of apps and other online tools for victims of sexual harassment and other misbehaviour.<\/p>\n<p>A Japanese start-up takes the concept to extremes with a website that lets people complain anonymously to those who offend them in a variety of ways, including excessively strong perfume.<\/p>\n<p>Sorehara is an abbreviation of the Japanese for \u201cThat&#8217;s harassment.\u201d It was devised by a 21-year-old college student and, like many #MeToo apps and websites, is meant to help victims of abuse safely fight back against their tormentors.<\/p>\n<p>It allows users to send anonymous complaints about that, and other gripes, by email, without registering any personal information. And it&#8217;s gaining popularity in Japan, despite some concerns over the potential for its misuse.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO \u2014 In the #MeToo era, companies, colleges and support groups are devising all sorts of apps and other online &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":93467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}