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Yes. There’s a reason that Japan created a new term “Chikan” to describe gropers on trains. It’s exceedingly common. Recent reports, suggest that almost every w
by new299 8y ago
Yes. There’s a reason that Japan created a new term “Chikan” to describe gropers on trains. It’s exceedingly common. Recent reports, suggest that almost every woman who has used a underground in Japan regularly has been groped at some point.
I asked the women in Japan who I know well enough, and they confirmed this.
Japan tries to combat this with female only carriages.
I was recently talking to a woman in the US about this, she suggested that it was also quite common in the US. So perhaps, there’s just a more public discussion about this in Japan.
I’d love to see statistics on this, if anyone has them.
- fenomas 8y agoGroping is certainly an issue in Japan, but much less so than in the past. MOJ stats show around 8K cases/year in the sixties and seventies, with that dropping to ~1.5K by 1990 and ~1K in recent years. (Anecdotally it's probably dropped even more than that, as one would expect more cases went unreported in the 60s than today.) Stats: e.g. http://www.moj.go.jp/content/001178520.pdf http://www.moj.go.jp/content/001178520.pdf Side note: according to an article I read at some point, women-only train carriages have apparently not noticeably affected statistics on groping cases. (Which is not to suggest they're not worthwhile for other reasons.)