Johnny Wadd
10-02-2005, 19:15
Perverts seem to be making up a good deal of Japans' subway riders.
Subway Groping! (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/02/09/wgrope09.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/02/09/ixworld.html)
Record number of women groped on Tokyo's subway
By Colin Joyce in Tokyo
(Filed: 09/02/2005)
A record number of women are being groped on Tokyo's overcrowded subway, tripling over the last eight years.
Despite a campaign to stamp out the problem by introducing women-only carriages, last year saw 2,201 women molested.
Japanese police confirmed that the Saikyo and Chuo lines are the most hostile for women to travel on.
Both suffer from such extreme overcrowding during rush hours that women cannot escape gropers' attentions.
Stations on the two lines are several minutes apart, providing ample time for the predators to strike.
High school girls are the main targets and the lines they use are the ones favoured by molesters.
Various tactics have been used to stop the assaults, including putting plainclothes women police officers on to trains.
Most incidents take place during the morning rush hour and police have called for more women-only carriages.
Many Japanese women, brought up to defer to men, find it difficult to confront a molester. Some accept being groped as an unfortunate fact of life.
"You need guts to raise your voice and the trains are so tightly packed that you cannot move to resist," a 20-year-old woman told the Yomiuri newspaper.
Some Japanese men fear that in the crush they may be mistaken as the culprit and many make sure they hold something in both hands.
What could be a solution to this problem? Should the female riders be able to have women only cars?
Subway Groping! (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/02/09/wgrope09.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/02/09/ixworld.html)
Record number of women groped on Tokyo's subway
By Colin Joyce in Tokyo
(Filed: 09/02/2005)
A record number of women are being groped on Tokyo's overcrowded subway, tripling over the last eight years.
Despite a campaign to stamp out the problem by introducing women-only carriages, last year saw 2,201 women molested.
Japanese police confirmed that the Saikyo and Chuo lines are the most hostile for women to travel on.
Both suffer from such extreme overcrowding during rush hours that women cannot escape gropers' attentions.
Stations on the two lines are several minutes apart, providing ample time for the predators to strike.
High school girls are the main targets and the lines they use are the ones favoured by molesters.
Various tactics have been used to stop the assaults, including putting plainclothes women police officers on to trains.
Most incidents take place during the morning rush hour and police have called for more women-only carriages.
Many Japanese women, brought up to defer to men, find it difficult to confront a molester. Some accept being groped as an unfortunate fact of life.
"You need guts to raise your voice and the trains are so tightly packed that you cannot move to resist," a 20-year-old woman told the Yomiuri newspaper.
Some Japanese men fear that in the crush they may be mistaken as the culprit and many make sure they hold something in both hands.
What could be a solution to this problem? Should the female riders be able to have women only cars?