AICHI (TR) – Nagoya University suspended a feminine affiliate professor regardless of her being a sufferer of illicit filming by a pupil three years in the past. She has since filed a lawsuit in search of damages, it was discovered on Monday.
According to the Chunichi Shimbun (Mar. 15), the girl, aged in her 40s, has filed a lawsuit towards Nagoya University within the Nagoya District Court, in search of 2.2 million yen in damages, claiming the college’s dealing with of the state of affairs was inappropriate. The college defined that they eliminated her from educating for her safety.
On June 26, 2023, the girl observed she was being secretly filmed — a apply often known as tosatsu — from above with a smartphone digicam in a college restroom stall. She apprehended a male pupil and handed him over to college workers.
The college questioned the scholar that very same day however didn’t report the matter to police instantly. The pupil later got here alone to the girl’s laboratory that very same day to apologize.
Afterward, the college didn’t expel the scholar, however as an alternative imposed a three-month suspension as a way of self-discipline. A police investigation was later carried out. The pupil was subsequently fined for violating the Aichi Prefectural Ordinance on Prevention of Nuisance Acts.
Removed from courses
Meanwhile, the college, with out conducting a radical investigation into the incident, eliminated the girl from all courses within the 2024 tutorial 12 months, claiming it was to guard her.
The lady, dissatisfied with this, felt it was a type of secondary victimization by the college and resigned on the finish of the tutorial 12 months.
In December 2025, she filed a lawsuit within the Nagoya District Court, claiming that the college’s inappropriate dealing with of the state of affairs violated its obligation to offer a secure working surroundings below the Labor Contract Act.
Nagoya University is contesting the case, in search of a dismissal of the declare. During the trial, the college argued that the girl had agreed to being faraway from courses. They additionally claimed that they had dealt with the state of affairs appropriately by encouraging the scholar interact in self-restraint and had his mother and father supervise him.