The Yomiuri Shimbun
Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito, along with about 120 prefectural government officials, participated in a training course Monday about preventing workplace harassment, also called power harassment, and learn about the whistleblower protection system.
The governor attended the training program, in which he was also taught anger management, for more than four hours. The prefectural government’s financial department had asked the governor to implement the course after the department conducted a probe on Saito last December over internal accusations of his alleged acts of power harassment.
Initially, Saito expressed his intention to receive the training program by the end of March, but it had been postponed due to his public duties and difficulty in arranging the instructors’ schedules.
The training course comprised three sessions focusing on “management of organizations and measures to prevent instances of power harassment,” “a system to protect whistleblowers for public interests” and “a system to protect personal information.” Only the beginning portions of each session was shown to the press.
Saito and 33 senior officials of the prefectural government took the course at the prefectural government office and 88 other officials took the course online at another location.
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