The topic you linked to exemplifies that. Just that there's this attitude that people have about Japan that is either 'lol Japan' or 'wow, Japan is so fucked up'. I didn't say one thing or the other about statistics. The point is, there's really messed up stuff that happens everywhere. That's their policy for what to do if something illegal is happening in the station - just stay in the booth. Well, he pressed a button that summons the police, but everything was long over by the time they came. The guy just stared at her and did nothing.

There was a story on my local news just a little while ago about a woman that got beaten and raped on the subway platform here in NYC, despite that she ran up the steps and was screaming at the MTA attendant in the booth to help. No matter where you go in the world there's a lot of stigma about rape, and women often feel too ashamed of themselves to tell anybody about what happened. On the other hand, there was a paper correlating a surge in porno availability with a decrease in rape, here.Gender equality has a long way to go in America as well, so what's your point? There's a huge percentage of unreported rape in America too.

Believe whatever suits your sense of justice, I guess. Gender equality still has a way to go in Japan, but it does seem the situation is improving. If a person is raped, it seems nobody gives a fuck.Дon't just take it from me. It's likely been underreported for years. If only Japan's rape reporting rates were in line with other nations.

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