Tokyo police nab 31 train gropers in Sept, including 15 repeat offenders

Friday 02nd October, 11:02 AM JST

TOKYO —

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department announced on Thursday that 31 men were arrested for groping or related acts aboard trains in Tokyo Prefecture during their campaign last month targeting such offenses.

More than 3,000 officers were assigned to patrolling platforms at more than 200 stations in Tokyo from Sept 14 to 18, coinciding with the beginning of the new school term.

Police announced 31 males from the ages of 16 to 67 were arrested. Of these, 25 were arrested for groping, 3 were arrested for indecent assault and another 3 were arrested for taking pictures up skirts. Fifteen of them had been arrested before for similar offenses.

Police said the victims ages ranged from 15 to 52, and were all women, except for one man dressed up as a woman.

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Sarge at 11:54 PM JST - 2nd October

lunchmeat: "I've been "groped" by an unbelievable number of local women"

Har!
LoveUSA at 12:11 AM JST - 3rd October

This article proves that we have to fight gropers everyday. i will gie the names of all the perverts who try to assault me to the police.
LoveUSA at 12:11 AM JST - 3rd October

give
Sarge at 12:14 AM JST - 3rd October

LoveUSA - Try stomping on the feet of the gropers, or kickin' 'em in the crotch.
LoveUSA at 12:16 AM JST - 3rd October

Sarge, maybe I will join the sakura police.
bushlover at 01:20 AM JST - 3rd October

They gotta start cutting off fingers. It's the only way these retards will learn to keep their hands to themselves.
ca1ic0cat at 01:35 AM JST - 3rd October

I've been "groped" by an unbelievable number of local women.

lunchmeat, if one of the "women" groped on the train was, in fact, a man what makes you think that the women groping you were really women?
HonestDictator at 01:36 AM JST - 3rd October

I like that idea someone mentioned to take a nice photo of the repeat offender. Take their picture, then fine them to make some nice big posters of that photo to post around the stations stating, "My name is -------, I am a groper." Or at each station have a plastic screen with all these guys photos on the "Wall of groping offenders". The women can look and identify them on sight...
bdiego at 04:53 AM JST - 3rd October

Sure, as long as they've been convicted first.
dasyhard at 05:11 AM JST - 3rd October

Maybe this country should start a "GROPE SESSION" and make it legal to grope on trains. Just hire consensual females for 2 cars to a train and place a sign to each car "GROPERS, MAN YOUR STATIONS". This sure sounds like a money making project for the cities, especially if the train fare is going to be much higher for the males.
idicemic at 10:22 AM JST - 3rd October

Moonbeam: Tooooo true! The chikans problem (at the bottom of the rather full barrel of sex crimes in Japan) is certainly influenced by the porn industry. Magazines and alluring soapland marquees will only go so far...Next comes upskirt photos and ass-grabbing. Pathetic.
michaelqtodd at 04:18 PM JST - 4th October

Got an all women`s carriage at an inappropriate time of day last week.It went pretty silent.Looked down the carriage and saw another gaijin.Suddenly we both clicked and both started laughing. Lots of women then started laughing too.It was a great moment. I love Japan
jason6 at 12:37 PM JST - 5th October

dasyhard: there are commercial forms of that already. you can grope prostitutes dressed up as commuters (and go further) at certain role play shops in the red-light districts. whether this encourages or lowers groping incidents is arguable, but they do exist and japanese people can do it (for a price of course).
kokorocloud at 04:00 PM JST - 5th October

The last line of this is priceless. Totally wasn't expecting that!
dasyhard at 07:00 AM JST - 8th October

jason6: thanks for the feedback. This is surprising to me that it already exists. Why do I get the feeling that I'm watching cartoons everytime I view the Crime section?