Adult toy “Love Doll” displayed at an indigo dyeing PR event (provided by Tokushima Prefecture)
On the 8th, Tokushima Prefecture purchased sex toys called “love dolls” without permission, displayed them in costumes at an indigo dyeing PR event held in 2017, and caused the prefecture to lose credibility due to inappropriate accounting procedures. For this reason, the section chief of the Forestry Promotion Division (46) was given a disciplinary dismissal.
According to the prefecture, in July 2017, when she was working in the tourism policy division, she put a life-sized love doll dressed in an indigo-dyed outfit on display for about a month. He said the purchase cost was approximately 420,000 yen and he did not report to the prefecture that it was a love doll. She is said to have said, “Indigo dyeing is plain, so we considered effective ways to promote it.” She also committed other inappropriate accounting procedures between fiscal years 2017 and 2019.
Separately, the section chief was accused of creating a false document in an attempt to conclude a fictitious contract in the name of producing goods for an event, and in February of this year, he was referred to the Tokushima Prefectural Police on charges of creating and using a false official document with a seal, and the prosecution was suspended. It was disposed of.