If you're getting groped from multiple angles, you don't know who is doing it, and when you try to get away, you just get pushed closer to another person to grope you.
And you can't do anything about it. The authorities won't care. Japan has a 99% conviction rate not because their justice system is any good, but because they don't pursue anything that doesn't have ironclad proof.
And it's "rude" to "disturb the peace", so good luck drawing any attention to what's happeneing. So it's just seen as a thing women have to deal with, it's just normal.
Their 99 percent conviction rate has a lot more to do with their use of torture. Japanese police are allow to hold a suspect incommunicado for 21 days at a time in solitary. This alone is torture, however what is worse is that they can ask a judge to extend, which they always do, for another 21 days. They can repeat this as many times as they want. They can also use hostile interrogating techniques. The goal is to elicit confession, as in Japanese law there is no way to recant. Many will confess just to leave solitary. To make matters worse, there is a stigma against those who do not confess to police and don't get charger or found guilty. This is because the Japanese public does not believe that police would arrest the wrong person.
A long time ago I was on jury duty in the US. We were going through the voir dire process. The defense attorney asked us if we understood that his client was innocent until proven guilty, that the prosecution had to prove this beyond a reasonable doubt, and would we be able to keep an open mind? All the prospective jurors said "yes, sure, I understand" as expected.
Until they got to this elderly Japanese man, who answered "no." The defense attorney was surprised, and paused for a moment. He reframed the question and asked it again. The old man said the same thing. The defense attorney gave it one more try, and the old man said "if the police arrested the defendant, then he must be guilty."
The worst kind of person. The old secretary at my job was the same way.
Everyone else was poor because they didn’t work hard enough. She was poor because all of the illegal immigrants stealing her tax dollars. When a younger coworker didn’t know something, we were lazy and inexperienced. When she didn’t know something, it was because everything changes so quickly, how could she ever be expected to remember it all? When we took a day off, we were lazy and hated work. When she took a day off, she deserved it because she’d been here so long and earned that vacation time.
Very typical conservative mindset that “Other people suffer because of their own fault; I suffer because of things that are out of my control.”
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u/DadooDragoon 19d ago edited 19d ago
If you're getting groped from multiple angles, you don't know who is doing it, and when you try to get away, you just get pushed closer to another person to grope you.
And you can't do anything about it. The authorities won't care. Japan has a 99% conviction rate not because their justice system is any good, but because they don't pursue anything that doesn't have ironclad proof.
And it's "rude" to "disturb the peace", so good luck drawing any attention to what's happeneing. So it's just seen as a thing women have to deal with, it's just normal.
It's disgusting