Social media users boast of plans to grope schoolgirls on day of their exam

[Tennis]

https://en.rocketnews24.com/2018/01/...mportant-test/

While Japanese teens are on the train headed to the once-a-year Center Test, some predators see a rare opportunity.

This year, January 13 and 14 were stressful days for many Japanese teens. That’s because those were this year’s exam dates for the Center Test, a rigorous examination that many Japanese colleges require a high score on as part of their admission criteria.

Adding another layer of anxiety is the fact that examinees don’t take the Center Test on their respective high school campuses. Instead, they have to travel to a regional test venue on the consecutive mornings in time for a 9:30 a.m. start. And as if all that wasn’t enough to worry about, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reports that when the time for the Center Test rolls around, would-be predators boast online about their plans to grope female high school students on the train on the morning of the exam.

In a recent segment, NHK program News Watch 9 presented a collection of social media posts about the writers’ planned chikan (train groping) activities, which included:

“Tomorrow’s the Center Test, and the forecast for chikan is great.”
“The number-one chance for chikan is on the days of the Center Test.”
“Since the Center Test takes place tomorrow, the conditions are perfect for chikan. All right, gonna hop on the train tomorrow and have a little nice communication with the girls.”
“You can feel up girls headed to the Center Test all you want and get off scot-free!!!”
“The Center Test is tomorrow? It’s a chikan carnival!”
“I just realized something amazing. If you grope a girl on the day of the Center Test, you won’t get caught, right?”

The reason for all this deplorable confidence? The Center Test is offered only once a year, and all examinees, nationwide, are required to take it at the same time. Show up late, and you run the risk of being told “Sorry, you can’t sit for the test. Come on time next year.” While not an insurmountable black mark, a gap year on your academic resume carries a stigma in Japan that can make job-hunting more difficult, and so arriving late to the Center Test site can have lasting repercussions for a person’s education and career.

Reporting a chikan incident, though, is a time-consuming process. The victim has to wait for the train to reach the next station, then somehow summon the authorities, who aren’t likely to be standing right there on the platform when she gets off. Then she has to give a statement, and that’s assuming there isn’t an altercation when she and/or any good Samaritans try to drag the chikan off the train so that he can face justice.

All of that takes more time than any buffer teens are likely to build into their schedule when heading to the Center Test venue, and so the logic of the boastful chikan is that when forced to choose between letting their assailant get away with his transgression or being late to the test, many girls will choose the former.

It should be noted that while the Center Test administrators are sticklers for punctuality, this does seem like a scenario where an exception would be made. It’s also worth pointing out that there haven’t been any publicized incidences of a girl who arrived late because she was groped on the train being told that she would be unable to take the test and would have to wait until next year to try again.

In addition, police reports make no mention of a spike in chikan activity on the days of the Center Test. That, however, may simply mean that chikans’ schemes are working exactly as planned, with teens who’ve been groped not taking the time to immediately inform police or Center Test administrators, and then, once the exam is over, being resigned to it now being too late to do anything about it and thus remaining silent.

Considering that how harried and strapped for time teens are on the days of the test is common knowledge in Japan, perhaps the best course of action would be for the Center Test’s governing body to make clear that while showing up on time is generally a must, being a victim of a crime, and reporting it to the authorities, is a valid excuse.

Yikes. This is terrible. What can be done to deter these monsters?
What a scumbag move to do this on the day of the exams. Who knows how many of these teens have done poorly because they were assaulted a few minutes before the exam!

[Baelic]

It's so sad that these people get so little action that they feel the need to prey on others on a very critical day of their lives.

I mean... maybe they should learn how to treat people with respect and perhaps they won't have a need for this behavior.

[Ghostpanther]

Not sure if it is legal in Japan, but they should have every school girl old enough , carry pepper spray on that day. Hell. I would advise any girl old enough to be out in the public alone to carry it, if legal. Spray their asses once with that and maybe it would help give them a attitude adjustment.

[Video Games]

まさか。。。。。。。。。

[durrtygoodz]

Yikes. This is terrible. What can be done to deter these monsters?

The article is pretty clear what can be done. More law enforcement. They do it for the simple reason that they can get away with it. This is the whole reason we have law and justice.

[Jacki Treehorn]

Not sure if it is legal in Japan, but they should have every school girl old enough , carry pepper spray on that day. Hell. I would advise any girl old enough to be out in the public alone to carry it, if legal. Spray their asses once with that and maybe it would help give them a attitude adjustment.

Using pepper spray on a busy enclosed train seems like a poor idea, there would almost certainly be additional people hit.

[bladeXcrasher]

https://en.rocketnews24.com/2018/01/...mportant-test/



Yikes. This is terrible. What can be done to deter these monsters?
What a scumbag move to do this on the day of the exams. Who knows how many of these teens have done poorly because they were assaulted a few minutes before the exam!

In a culture obsessed with young looking cartoon girls, what did you expect? Them and people that support that culture are ultimately to blame for this.

[Independent voter]

The Tokyo "no creeper" train cars.

[Ghostpanther]

Using pepper spray on a busy enclosed train seems like a poor idea, there would almost certainly be additional people hit.

Yeah. That is a good point. Maybe some knuckle shockers.

[Heladys]

Yikes. This is terrible. What can be done to deter these monsters?

Why don't you ride the trains and take action? Your article bemoans the shortage of good samaritans, go be one.

[Tennis]

Why don't you ride the trains and take action? Your article bemoans the shortage of good samaritans, go be one.

I'm not Japanese am I?

[Mistame]

While there's certainly no excuse for that type of behavior, they only have their own culture to blame for it. Between population imbalances, pretentious women, jaded men and an insane obsession with "youthful" cartoon porn, it's not really surprising.

[Deleted]

It's so sad that these people get so little action that they feel the need to prey on others on a very critical day of their lives.

I mean... maybe they should learn how to treat people with respect and perhaps they won't have a need for this behavior.

In a world where great beauty or great wealth is the means by which you acquire sex behavior such as this is bound to happen. Add to that all the stigmas attached to certain sexual proclivities and no legal ways to express them and this is what you get.

All this shit is going to get way worse as time passes, mark my words.

For the record (using nomenclature you can grasp) you are speaking from a position of privilege. The privilege of being a straight white male with no deviating sexual fetishes or unusual sexual proclivities while possessing an average to low libido. It is also likely you enjoy a middle class lifestyle and are moderately to very attractive.

Congratulations for being happy with having an average sex life in an average relationship.

[breadisfunny]

i can't help myself those elven ladies are just so irresistable.

[Deleted]

I'm not Japanese am I?

Can you not do anything against that? That's horrible!

[Tennis]

While there's certainly no excuse for that type of behavior, they only have their own culture to blame for it. Between population imbalances, pretentious women, jaded men and an insane obsession with "youthful" cartoon porn, it's not really surprising.

But they're following your advice of staying single and now they're lonely and desperate. Can't have it both ways.

[Player Twelve]

While there's certainly no excuse for that type of behavior, they only have their own culture to blame for it. Between population imbalances, pretentious women, jaded men and an insane obsession with "youthful" cartoon porn, it's not really surprising.

Fuck women for having standards, amirite? They brought it on themselves?

[Dys]

In a world where great beauty or great wealth is the means by which you acquire sex behavior such as this is bound to happen. Add to that all the stigmas attached to certain sexual proclivities and no legal ways to express them and this is what you get.

All this shit is going to get way worse as time passes, mark my words.

For the record (using nomenclature you can grasp) you are speaking from a position of privilege. The privilege of being a straight white male with no deviating sexual fetishes or unusual sexual proclivities while possessing an average to low libido. It is also likely you enjoy a middle class lifestyle and are moderately to very attractive.

Congratulations for being happy with having an average sex life in an average relationship.

Hurr durr itsa white privilege. Racist. Twist it all you can, you won't find your worth in there.

[Rukario]

It's so sad that these people get so little action that they feel the need to prey on others on a very critical day of their lives.

I mean... maybe they should learn how to treat people with respect and perhaps they won't have a need for this behavior.

It has nothing to do with how much "action" they get...they are just vile people.

[Mistame]

But they're following your advice of staying single and now they're lonely and desperate. Can't have it both ways.

Still haven't figured out how reading comprehension works, eh?

Fuck women for having standards, amirite? They brought it on themselves?

Having standards is fine, as far as attraction, etc, goes. But the belief that you're entitled to an attractive, wealthy and socially successful man simply because you have a vagina and a larger pool of options makes you a pretentious cunt, culture or not. And I didn't say women brought it on. I mentioned multiple cultural issues that contribute to the greater issue.