OSAKA -- An Osaka police officer paid 1 million yen to a woman two years ago to privately settle a complaint that he harassed her by repeatedly asking her to go out with him, prefectural police revealed Tuesday.
The Osaka Prefecture woman, who was in her 40s at the time, filed a complaint at a police station near her home in June 1998 that she was being stalked by the 51-year-old assistant inspector, police said.
Senior police officials who helped settle the case did not report it to the Inspection Office of the Osaka Prefectural Police. They will be reprimanded, police added.