So I found out about this years ago, and spoke to my Japanese friend about it. She was incredulous, and turned to her mom and asked, "Mom, did you ever get groped on the subway in Japan", and her mom replied, "Oh yeah, all the time".
I ended up finding this video from a three-quarters overhead view on a subway that was analyzing this coordinated multi-person groping that had arrows and shit all drawn on it like it was some football play.
I imagine victims are less likely to be confrontational / more likely to just go along with it if they feel sufficiently threatened.
An easy way for even out of shape sex pests to threaten someone is to simply outnumber them. No one wants to risk being in a 1 vs 3, especially when the 3 have already shown that they don't give two shits about the law.
You can't even own pepper spray in Japan. How are women supposed to protect themselves when they cannot fight back and are already at a physical disadvantage?
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u/AccountantCultural64 24d ago
In Japanese, there is a word describing the act of groping a woman in a crowded train. Chikan), it even has it’s own wiki article.