It follows widespread reports of train gropers targeting students who were heading to university entrance exams over the ...

More than 50 percent of women in Tokyo have fallen victim to “chikan” groping while riding on or waiting for trains, usually without any consequences for the perpetrator, a survey shows.

A Fukuoka prefectural police survey of 3,000 people last year found around 90 percent of chikan victims on trains or in other places didn’t report the incident to police or train station officials.