ongoing.
“Japan is known around the world for its vast network of modern, efficient and clean trains.
But train travel in some of the world’s most crowded cities holds a sinister threat for women and girls who ride the rails — the risk of groping.
It has been a longstanding problem, but it is not commonly talked about in Japan and continues to be an under-reported problem.”
Yet they have taken attempts to address it with female only cars on the most active lines - years ago.
And it is talked about in movies, TV shows, magazines, newspapers, etc
Is it still an issue - yes and girls/women are being encouraged to speak out when it happens - upon which the perp is lucky if the whole car doesn’t turn on him before the next station.
Are shootings in Chicago still an issue? Yep...is there much talk about them in the US media/news - an unhighlighted article on a particularly bad weekend....while a one-time shooting at an unexpected location is discussed ad infinitum for weeks.
Are there other social issues here.... yep....
My point being that yes Japan has some social issues....so does every other nation.
Point of the article is psychological influencing planned by rail management to influence rail riders. Are you saying that they are influencing groping?