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Yet the Japanese have incredibly low rates of sexual assault, rape, and about HALF the divorce rate of the United States (1-in-4 vs about 50%).

Have you ever actually been in Japan?

Have you ever seen the posters in the subways showing schoolgirls and office ladies telling molesters (called "chikan") that "NO!" (in English, because there is no forceful way to say NO! in Japanese) they don't want to be felt up or the poster with the three red circles with the slashes through them, one with a picture of a person hitting a vending machine, the second with a person hitting a train man, and the third with a man's hand going up a woman's skirt? How about the woman-only train cars that they've run so that woman can feel safe going home from Shibuya without getting felt up? Yeah, that's how common men molesting women in Tokyo train cars is.

I think you are confusing low reporting rates with reality. In Japan, a woman who gets felt up on a train will traditionally (though this is changing) simply not say anything because causing a commotion in public is considered rude and embarassing and she won't report it for the same reason.

Do I also need to tell you about the high number of young women who no longer get married, the rampant sexism in the workplace, the low birth rate, the child pornography that was only recently stopped, and so on? And let's not forget that Japan has more abortions per year than the United States with half the population. And what about the actual Japanese women who are pushed into making pornography to pay off family debts by the Yakuza? Good clean fun?

Yeah, and Japan doesn't have a homeless problem, either. I was just imagining those tent cities full of dirty men with no jobs in the parks.

There are plenty of wonderful things about Japan but their relations between the sexes and how women are treated are not among them. Please, take the rose-colored glasses off or spend some time there.

"I think you are confusing low reporting rates with reality."

Classic feminist tripe.... 'Women are victims, and either don't know it or won't report it....'

"In Japan, a woman who gets felt up on a train will traditionally (though this is changing) simply not say anything because causing a commotion in public is considered rude and embarassing and she won't report it for the same reason."

So?

"Do I also need to tell you about the high number of young women who no longer get married,"

Careers.

", the rampant sexism in the workplace,"

More feminist crap.

"the low birth rate,"

Careers, again.

"the child pornography that was only recently stopped,"

Are you sure it wasn't baby-seal-stomping? Because that happens too. Seriously, it does.

"And let's not forget that Japan has more abortions per year than the United States with half the population."

They are Buddhists. The Japanese have long rationalized the evils of abortion in believing that every dead baby is happily reincarnated the very next day. No connection to porn.

"And what about the actual Japanese women who are pushed into making pornography to pay off family debts by the Yakuza?"

I am clearly arguing with Molly Yard/Anita Hill/Patricia Ireland here... One should pay no attention to "women are victims" arguments. Unless the girls are of Muslim, Gypsy, or some other cruel and unusual culture, those claims are always false or overblown -- all of them.