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 ...

The increase in cases of assault and harassment has led to the organization of preventive citizen patrols and even the creation of an 'app' to "repel gropers." Japanese culture is criticized for ...

"Chikan" -- men who grope women in public in Japan. Also refers to the act itself. An illustrator who posted a cartoon claiming to show the difference between those who easily attract sexual ...

Japan is a unique country. Isolated on a string of islands, its culture developed in part independently from mainland Asia. Although at times intriguing, such eccentricity has a dark side: a long ...

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 ...

A pair of Japanese schoolgirls chased down a suspected groper on a station platform and were helped by a man who tripped him up. Video taken from the platform of Akabane Station in Tokyo shows the man ...

An otter in handcuffs as he attempts to look up a schoolgirl’s skirt has been selected as the winning entry in an annual competition to create a badge designed to deter “chikan” perverts – the gropers ...

Many chikan survivors fear reporting the crime could create trouble for co-workers or school staff, he added. They may also be discouraged by the perception of a lengthy police process for a crime ...