KUMAMOTO (TR) – A 55-year-old Kumamoto prefectural authorities worker has been handed a four-month suspension after spending practically 100 hours viewing grownup web sites and studying manga on his work pc.
And it wasn’t the primary time, stories Fuji News Network (Apr. 1).
According to the prefectural authorities, the male worker, a clerk-level engineer assigned to the Commerce, Industry, and Labor Department, accessed express content material and manga websites for a complete of 93 hours between January 2024 and July 2025.
Adding to the severity of the misconduct, the person additionally transferred grownup movies saved on his private house pc to a USB flash drive, which he introduced into the federal government workplace to observe throughout enterprise hours.
During an inside investigation, the official admitted to the allegations, trying to excuse the conduct by citing the pressures of his job.
“I was experiencing work-related stress,” he advised investigators. “I lacked a sense of ethics and mixed public and private matters.”
The four-month suspension, formally issued on March 27, shouldn’t be the civil servant’s first reprimand. He was beforehand disciplined for the same office infraction in 2018.