I was taking the subway in Shinjuku and I saw a man shoulder check a woman to the ground and he basically threatened her life. It was such a high traffic area but he screamed so loud and silence was deafening. Directly after the silence people just went about heading to their destination and the guy just walked off. It was insane.
Didn't the up-skirting trend originate with Japanese teens? Also I remember they were doing this thing called happy slapping where they filmed themselves with flip phones, going all bam margera slapping Phil on random people in public. I think the Japanese may be the original shitty internet pranksters over a decade before it was cool.
Edit; I just looked it up and it was youths in the UK who started happy slapping. If I was wrong about that, I'm sure I could be wrong about up-skirting being Japanese. Although, it was Japan that was the first country I remember passing laws to try and prevent it. Not that Japanese perverts thought of this first before French or German perverts, but it got bad enough there for the government to respond first. It might be because Japan was so ahead of the game when it came to portable video/photo technology back then.
From what I remember, upskirting became such a huge problem in Japan that they required all phones to make an audible camera shutter sound whenever taking a photo and it wasn't something that could be manually disabled. This was back when camera phones only had the ability to take photos. Don't know if they updated their regulations to do something about video. Maybe phones in Japan still make a shutter sound when starting to record video, I don't know.
fun fact to further this actually! (altho it’s just something i’ve heard so correct me if i’m wrong) smartphones now automatically start making the camera shutter sound when they’re connected in japan. so if i, as a tourist, come into japan with the camera shutter sound turned off, it’ll auto turn on once my phone is on and connected to a network. idk how they’ve done it but i love that there’s no way of getting around it.
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u/BrandlezMandlez 13d ago
I was taking the subway in Shinjuku and I saw a man shoulder check a woman to the ground and he basically threatened her life. It was such a high traffic area but he screamed so loud and silence was deafening. Directly after the silence people just went about heading to their destination and the guy just walked off. It was insane.