Mon 22 Jul 2002 Tokyo’s subway ‘gropers’ fighting back Julian Ryall in Tokyo ACCUSED of being sex pests and hauled before Japanese courts, a group of men is fighting back and has set up a self-help group in an effort to clear their names. The 13 founder members of the group are awaiting trial or have been cleared of charges of molesting women on Japan’s famously congested rush-hour trains. Each claims he is innocent and the group is offering to support any man who is either mistakenly or maliciously identified as a molester. "Chikan" - the Japanese term for men...