Japan's (linguistic) harassment problem explained

On this episode of Japan Station, we're talking about the ridiculous amount of terms for different types of "harassment" in Japanese.

👉Topics Discussed

• We go over some well known and some very obscure "hara" (ハラ) words
• What is sekuhara セクハラ
• What is pawahara パワハラ
• What is morahara モラハラ
• What is harahara ハラハラ
• What is manehara マネハラ
• Why calling everything "harassment" can be problematic
• And much more!

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