One in 10 young people in Japan – the vast majority women – have been groped on trains and in other public places, a government survey has found, highlighting an often unreported crime that has long ...

A teenage girl raised her hand, clutching a smartphone, over the heads of passengers around her on a train in Tokyo in mid-April. The text on her phone’s screen read, “A groping incident is occurring ...

As you probably know, Japan is infamous for "chikan" – men who grope women in crowded trains. Anti-chikan stickers for cell phones have been put out by the Saitama Prefecture Police department. And ...

Young women who were groped en route to last weekend’s university entrance exams in Japan will be allowed to sit an alternative test this weekend, authorities have announced – an unprecedented move ...

Critics question the necessity of safe zones for women. Passengers say a culture of 'chikan' abuse makes them vital Mariko was a teenager the day she found herself alone in a near-empty carriage with ...

A campaign in Japan aimed at high school girls provides special tin buttons for them to wear while riding the train to deter groping and other forms of sexual assault. The Chikan Prevention Activities ...

In Japan, sexual harassment on trains is a problem that refuses to go away, in spite of specially created pins, stamps, and women-only carriages that attempt to stop chikan, the Japanese word for a ...

More than 10 per cent of young Japanese have experienced sexual groping on trains and other public settings, according to a study by the Cabinet Office, with around 3.4 per cent of 36,000 people ...