[BlazingArizona]

"Whenever a schoolgirl rode on the escalator, Uekusa would jog up behind her and stand on a step two steps to her rear. He would place some baggage on the step between himself and the girl. Then, he would place his right leg on the same step as his luggage and bend down, resting his right arm on his right thigh. In his hand he held a handkerchief, which he folded back to conceal a mirror he used to leer up the schoolgirl's skirt," the officer tells the court.

Such a person is called a "chikan", and unless you get involved with the yakuza, is the closest you can find to an actual criminal in Japan, even in a city where thirty million people are in perpetual close contact on the subway.

[GATOR NAVY]

There's a big sign on the side of the road about 1 km from one the gates at my base that says "watch out for chikan" and tells the girls to call 119 (Japanese 911). This is in the suburbs.