@PtM @ErigenJapan's worker protection is much better then what you would find in the US, but lags behind most of the UK and the EU, and can't hold a candle to places like Germany and Norway.Like most countries, they have The Labor Standards Act that sets the foundation for working conditions while regulating wages and working hours, and they have the Labor Union Act to protect the right to organize and bargain collectively. About 17% of people are in a union, which is high ... but not top tier.With that said, no law or no union I am aware of offers protection to people who have committed sexual assault. You can fire people for doing crimes, especially contracted workers who will have standards of behavior worked into their contract. Idols, for example, get fired all the dang time for dating, which is often forbidding in their contract.The complication here is that he settled, so the accusations where never proven in court. That's why he wasn't flat out fired.People are upset with Fuji TV because the socially accepted "correct" thing to do would have been to:1) Immediately disclose the accusation.2) Start a private investigation into the accusations,.3) Publicly disclose the results of that investigation4) Take appropriate action based on the findings.5) Disclose that he settled out of court, and the settlement was unfavorable for him.Instead they went with don't tell anyone, hide the whole thing and hope no one ever finds out. That's the problem. It's not really that this guy might have done a crime, it's that Fuji TV covered it up and betrayed the public trust.