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This chapter analyzes Mr. Hamada’s whistleblowing case which happened in a private company in Japan. Mr. Hamada found illegal recruitment committed by his boss and internally blew the whistle to an in-house compliance office. After the whistleblowing, he experienced serious retaliations from the company. He filed a lawsuit against the company’s retaliation and won the suit finally. This is a rare case that a whistleblower won a legal battle against an organization in Japan. This chapter describes the whole process of the whistleblowing case and highlights retaliations caused by Japanese corporate culture and loopholes of the Whistleblower Protection Act.
This work was partly supported by Social Science Korea Program through the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2018S1A3A2075609).
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Chang, Y. (2020). Whistleblowing in Japan: The Case of Masaharu Hamada. In: Apaza, C., Chang, Y. (eds) What Makes Effective Whistleblowing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40200-6_5
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