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sexual harassment in Japanese train


chikan-is-crime_combinedPolice Tokyo, Japan, began operations arrest offenders against women that often occur in commuter trains. Undercover police personnel are deployed in a number of trains full of passengers.

Under the guise of distributing leaflets, they aim to catch a group of abusers. The operation will last for one week.

As quoted from the BBC page, Monday, September 14, 2009, offenders can be jailed up to seven years in Japan. Police revealed that abusers use the Internet to coordinate their activities, and also form a kind of association.

Some suspect that in the last few months saying that they caught the train makes a certain direction as the target of a recommendation that they read on the website.

Last year, more than 6,000 people were arrested on suspicion of deliberately ran the passenger’s body or taking pictures of women who do not deserve object photographed.

According to a survey, nearly two-thirds of young women experiencing abuse in public transportation. Even the number of trains to provide a special car for women passengers.

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