Chinese Tourists Arrested For Sexual Harassment in Japan

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3 Chinese “Pervs” Sexually Harass Japanese Girls, Arrested on the Spot

According to news from Japan’s New Huaqiao Online Newspaper, it may be that the media is biased in its presentation, or it may be that individuals are reading too far into it, but in the minds of some Chinese people, Japan is a very sexually liberal country with unique attitudes about sex. Many people know that Japan is a place where sexual harassment often occurs, and that this kind of behaviour is known as “chikan [pervert] behaviour”. If Chinese people know only these things, and they think they know Japan, and think that sexual harassment is insignificant to the point where you can boldly just “give it a shot” while traveling around Japan, than they’re wrong! This kind of misconception will lead to legal consequences, from being fined to prison time

Information from Japanese police revealed that 3 Chinese tourists were recently detained in succession for violating the “Confusion Prevention Code”. They are suspected of sexual harassment and were considered by police to have been caught red-handed and thus arrested. Among them, one used a mobile phone camera to take an underskirt photo of a woman on an escalator in a mall, one lifted up the skirt of a female passenger while riding a tram, and one man groped a woman’s buttocks while shopping in an adult products store. Although the acts of the three men were different, they all met the same result — being grabbed by their victims and held until police arrived and arrested them at the scene.

According to Japan’s “Confusion Prevention Code” Provision 8, “Perverted Behavior” is punishable by 6 months in prison or a fine of 500,000 Yen. Secretly taking pictures is punishable by one year in prison or a fine of 100,000 Yen and punishments increase for repeat offenders. According to Japanese criminal law regulation 176, in relation to “forced molestation”, the offender can be imprisoned between 6 months and 10 years. After police verify a case, they will first detain the offender. The offender can then choose their own lawyer, or the Japanese government will provide one. In cases where the victim is not willing to settle, the offender will be punished severely in accordance with related laws.

Normally, in situations with Japanese women suffering mental/emotional distress, they often are not willing to make settlements, so the offender will usually be sentenced to the highest possible sentence. For this reason, many Japanese men have lost their reputations and families, making it hard to get their lives back on track. Stories like these are a common occurrence in the Japanese media.

To avoid suspicion, many Japanese men will bring a newspaper on the subway or train during rush hour before and after work. If there are no hand-holds available in the car and they are near women, they place their briefcase in one hand and the newspaper in the other to prove that they don’t have any hands free for “other activities”. The fear that most Japanese men have of becoming entangled in a “perverted behaviour” dispute is quite evident. On the other hand, the Japanese government has carried out all kinds of measures to reduce the possibility of “perverted behaviour” occurring, such as reminding women not to wear excessively revealing clothing and to avoid tightly-packed crowds consisting of mostly men.

Actually, people who have a deep understanding of Japanese society and culture know that the overwhelming majority of modern Japanese women are no longer like the historically weak/delicate “Yamato Nadeshiko”. They have the sense and awareness of self-protection that modern women in modern societies have, no longer like the “silent sheep” of the male-dominated society of the past. When they encounter “perverted behavior”, they no longer suffer in silence, and will often react in the blink of an eye, grabbing the offender on the spot, sometimes “willing to grab the wrong person rather than miss a guilty one”. At the same time, almost all public places are sprinkled with security cameras making it even more difficult for perpetrators to escape. Once they’ve entered the legal process, the rate of Japanese women forgiving offenders is nearly zero.

What is very important to pay attention to is the fact that Japanese judicial institutions will not be lenient to foreigners on the grounds of ethnicity, cultural differences, systems or different customs. In some cases there are trends of dealling stricter punishments to foreigners.

Sound the alarm bells! The “perverted behaviour” of these individual Chinese citizens in Japan goes beyond the realm of good and bad manners, and crosses over into criminal behavior. Not only will this kind of behaviour lead to legal consequences and punishment, once you have a criminal record it will be very difficult to get back into Japan. Because the Japanese system shares information with western countries, your criminal record can interfere with your ability to visit other countries. Furthermore, this kind of behaviour will damage the reputation of overseas Chinese, and the reputation of China. Every person who damages the image of China is despised by the Chinese people.

http://www.chinasmack.com/2015/stori...-in-japan.html


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