Chikan

With only a couple of days left in this truly wonderful and amazing place, I thought it would be in bad taste to rag on the Japanese.

Then I thought ... what the hell.



Sneaked onto the women's only car of the Saikyo railway line this morning two minutes before I was supposed to. During rush hour, the first car is for women only. Why? To help curb chikan. This is where men molest women in public. The women, ashamed, or frightened, apparently just tolerate this. Here's a mild form of it someone managed to video and sneak onto You Tube.



Having shown this, I want to add that Tokyo is an extraordinarily safe and wonderful city. My "love" and "didn't love" lists will be coming in the next couple of days. So will I ... err, back to San Francisco, that is.