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Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officials are pushing for the introduction of more women-only carriages in Tokyo trains to crack down on molesters, but railway companies are digging their heels in, saying such a system would cause delays and be difficult to introduce. In recent years the number of groping incidents in trains has continued to climb. Last year the MPD made apprehensions over 2,234 molestation-related incidents. Many of these incidents occurred on trains. Police approached several Tokyo-based railway companies at the end of last year and submitted documents to railway executives, asking them to introduce women-only carriages, albeit on a...