What about the groping?
No extra charge
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.”
Tokyo 2008, the concierge at our hotel told me on the train to keep my hands high up on a rail or post where others could see it. Women were reporting hundreds of men a day to police for groping.
My sister-in-law lives in Japan (married to a Japanese guy) and i’ve been there. There is no groping (Chikan) - definitely not to foreigners. Like portrayals of the USA outside the US, there is a lot of exaggeration and things that are not faced in reality
Start walking around Tokyo and three things you notice immediately:
a) zero diversity
b) beautiful women EVERYwhere
c) the lack of any male-female couples.
Then notice the anti-groping signs, and b) and c) together are even more mind-boggling. Any theories?