Japan survey finds 1 in 6 men groped on Tokyo public transport, defying gender assumptions

A Tokyo metropolitan government survey has found that about one in six men who use the city’s trains and stations say they have been groped – a level experts describe as unexpectedly high and a reminder that women are not the only targets of the Japanese capital’s notorious chikan molesters. The same survey found that 54.3 per cent of women reported having been inappropriately touched on public transport, a figure that remains far higher than for men but has long been the focus of official...