OSAKA -- Recent years have seen more and more whistle-blowers come forward to expose corporate wrongdoing, often to their own personal career detriment.
Kabunushi (Shareholders) Ombudsman, a nonprofit organization working to promote corporate reforms, plans to create a center in October to support and protect people willing to speak up against their employers.
Japan has no laws to protect whistle-blowers from unfair treatment by their employers, except for a 1999 revision to a law regulating nuclear reactors, and thus many company workers, if they detect improper activities by superiors or coworkers, are believed reluctant to reveal wrongdoing.
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