Japanese police warn schoolgirls about subway visitors as they take national university entrance exams. At Tokyo’s Shinjuku Central Station, with its millions of passengers a day, before the start of the two-day tests, in which hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren from all over the country participate at the same time, the police called for an end to the “chikan” (grab) problem, as the newspaper “Nikkan Sports” reported on Wednesday.
In Japan’s chronically overcrowded subways, women can easily fall victim to groping. “Chikan” is such a serious issue that at certain times there are women-only compartments. The two exam days will decide the future of the university and therefore also the career of the young Japanese. The stress for young people is correspondingly high. Traffic reports and weather forecasts are closely monitored to ensure that you can show up at the National Examination Centers on the day of the exam start. Hotels in the area are fully booked. Exceptions are only made in case of illness with a doctor’s certificate.
Gropers fear no consequences on exam day
Japanese metro gropers know that young people do everything they can to appear for the test: According to the paper, there are always malicious messages on the Internet, such as one from last year, in which someone wrote: “The examinees do not report it, you touch them as much as you like.” The police crack down on offenders on trains and convicts risk prison. To avoid being suspected, some men always hold their arms up in the congested lanes.
Source: Krone
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