A company starting a new women-only bus service has stoked controversy, with critics contending that the services represent sexual discrimination against men.
The new “woman only” bus service operates in the Okinawa town of Tomigusuku, and as its name suggests, men are not allowed to board the pink buses.
The buses are decorated with flowers and have pink curtains, whilst the driver is of course a woman.
Boys of no more than elementary school age are allowed to accompany their mothers on the bus, and women requiring attendance are allowed to bring male helpers on board. Otherwise men are banned from alighting.
Just as on women-only carriages, the bus service runs under capacity – reportedly one bus seats around 28, but typically only 20 seats will be filled. Meanwhile, normal services which men are allowed to use are usually full.
Due to its size and geography, Okinawa itself has no rail network, and is thus completely reliant on buses.
This is not the first such service in Japan – reportedly a similar women-only service in the northern wastes of Hokkaido has run since 2003, and a number of inter-city coach services offer women-only passage (variously pictured).
In such cases operating companies claim they take care to arrange schedules so that men are not left waiting at the bus stop after female customers are allowed to board their buses – particular concerns given the frigid conditions in winter Hokkaido and the severe summer heat and ferocious typhoons in Okinawa.
Japanese buses do not suffer the chikan problems associated with the nation’s overcrowded trains – operators report that “customer preference” is the reason for running such services, without citing any specific concerns.
Japan is the only developed nation to widely operate such gender-segregated services, and most of the countries which do operate them are backwards religious nations.
Naturally, the introduction of even more discriminatory transport services has not passed without comment – the “Campaign Against Women-Only Carriages,” a group formed to oppose the trend, asserts that the bus services constitute illegal discrimination against men:
“According to the laws governing bus services on public roads, operators cannot deny people service according to sex. Based on the notion that ‘Most chikan may be men, but most men are not chikan,’ we wish to protest these moves.”
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Japanese men brought this on themselves for being so fucking sleazy
You are a bigot.
sexist much ? at little racism at it ?
This will only encourage more traps in Japan...
maybe this is why the birth rate in japan is so low
lol Japan. This would never happen in America.
COMAN MIERDA GRINGOS Y JAPONESES JAJAJAJA
JODISOS GRINGOS JAJA
We need to put up some Men Only signs again.
They should just come right out and say "No one with a chin-chin is allowed" - even little boys.
it will make it easier for predators to victimize women, now they can hijack a bus like this and avoid dealing with possible heroes.
*watches Japan take another huge leap backwards*
Wait, how the well you need a woman only service for THAT kind of bus?
They should make men-only carriages to balance out the trend.
Make a manly bus,women enter at their own risk.
I don't know what's more offensive: the fact that they've made buses exclusively for women, or the fact that they made them pink.
I wonder if they have invisible man porn of women only buses yet?
WELCOME TO EQUALITY!
ah were section is were they cut your balls off and transform you into a pussy ?
watch out for lesbian gropers.
yes, watch out for me !
Of course they're discrimatory, but who's really gives a damn in light of the huge chikan issue. Besides, it's a private company; if they so please they should be able to discriminate against blacks, asians, jews, christians, atheists, muslims, etc. Sometimes America has got the right idea.
of course, all the complaining people are men , who have of course never been groped in a japanese train at rush hour
of course i'm not sure the phenomenon is so visible in busesunless we talk about buses with lots of standing-up places such as the mentionned trains
as a woman (or as a trap :p ) i'm not against women only transportation as long as you get some guy's crotch pressed against you in crowded wagon
toilets and changing rooms are not only places where women prefer being separated from men, c'mon, it's about any place where you don't want to be forced to have genital contact with another gendre, may it be visual or tactile ...
Please, just go extinct quickly.
The problem is that the trains are overcrowded. The solution, therefore, is to increase capacity. Segregation treats a symptom, but not the disease.
Holy shit! a non-sexist way to treat the solution! Dude did you divide by zero?
No he actually used sense, whoever this anon is he deserves internet.
Isn't alighting getting down?
I sens something big gonna happen: like an okama (woman in disguise*he's a man) got in and do some unbelievable stuff
Well then we'll go make our own bus service!
With hookers!
And black jack!
...
You know what
Forget the black jack!
and bus service!
Maybe traps can get aboard XD
First, the bath houses & now the buses: The bath houses because of us foreigners, and now the buses because of men. And both of these happening mostly in Northern Japan. In America we usual look south for segregation, but apparently you look north in Japan. Wonder what one finds looking east or west?
If this bus gets lost, who're they going to ask for directions?
Seeing how easy it is for japanese women to sue random males for alleged groping and shit (and of course they don't even have to prove anything, the guy just gets condemned on the spot)this would be rather beneficial for japanese men, i guess. It's complete bullcrap, no doubt. We all know what this is really about.
I just want to say, people if you don't want to lose all of your freedom and dignity, you should demonstrate regularly. Most of this worlds democracies are slowly turning into totalitarian, "big brother" states. Democracy dies in thundering applause. It's true.
Funny how the bus drivers in the bus aren't women (at least from the photos).
Okinawa does have a monorail, so it's not entirely correct to say that buses are the only way to get around. It is true however that the monorail only covers a small part of the island. When I visited there I tried to take the monorail as much as possible because buses in Japan are kind of cramped at the best of times.
Geez, dudes... chill out.
What man would want to ride the "pink bus", anyway? (I'm talkin' about _transportation_ here, not gettin' laid...)
I wouldn't want to ride the sweaty, stinky GAR bus, either.
I guess I'll just wait for a (probably crowded) mixed-gender bus.
And in Malaysia here we thought that having their own women only coach on the KTM Komuter is bad enough... but this happens else where too!
Did anyone of watched the recent episode of Hotd?
Yeah...
I bet most supporters of the “Campaign Against Women-Only Carriages” are male chikans. Lol.
Isreal has sex segregated buses in certain portions of its nation. It's because the hardcore hasedics don't cotton to the mixing of men and unrelated women--- cause the women have cooties (seriously, they are considered "unclean" as long as they are of age to be bear children).
They have recently put this in Guadalajara, Mexico. The buses are pink instead of green. Reason? Chikans.
Also, when you enter a subway station on Mexico City during rush hour, a cop is standing saying "Only kids and women in this section!". Mexico City's subways are literally as crowded as Tokyo's, the only difference is that the people themselves do the cramming inside the wagons instead of the staff, and well, this is where chikans get their chance...
photoshop the pictures, change the "WOMEN ONLY" to "WHITE PEOPLE ONLY" and ask them for a comment.
recoilless rifle
I don't approve of discrimination, but if sexual harassment is a problem on the buses and trains, this might be a viable solution at least until there is effective sexual harassment education is in place.
"if sexual harassment is a problem on the buses"
it isn't.
men only...
do not want
Problem is, those companies have every right to discriminate against men.
And yes, a black man with a bus should be able to not let white people ride and a white man with a bus should be able to not let black people ride.
You wouldn't want strangers on your property no matter how black/white/red/lizardman they were, so whats the difference between rolling property and your house?
this is stupid (im a woman) i understand why they did it with trains but this is rather stupid "facepalm" this company is just making money from the escandal
It is a private company so I have no real problem with it, if these were public buses however, like what they do with the trains. I'd be fucking pisssed.
Next time, they will be a Lady-Only-Trains and instead of male groping the females, we'll see the news headline "Female accused a female for sexual act in Lady-Only-Train"
Segregation is wrong.
judgine by the pictures it seems no good looking women, only old people. wonder why?
lol i wonder if the bus driver is a "He" and dresses as a "She" that would would be funny XD
This would make a great idea! ...In the world of anime. Because they don't have to worry about the double standard. Then again it's fiction, so there wouldn't be a lose-lose situation. In the real world, this pretty much is going to get a lot of people angry, for obvious reasons. So we can only hope that either the world gets smarter and stop overreacting to something that has a simple solution. If not, at least we got something good to watch for the next half hour.
Fuck, I don't even get why we have separate bathrooms.
"One Step for women, one slap to the face for men"
You this equal thing goes both ways, if you give more to one sex and leave the other out isn't this the same thing that you were fighting against ?
I do believe that this world would be equal if men and women come to a agreeing point, so meaning if there women's only buses then why can't there be mens only buses ?, the same with the trains ? Am pretty sure just like the ladies don't like be stuck together with random strangers, the guys don't like it either, thats why people are complaining it isn't "JUST BECAUSE THEY HAVE IT!", it is "let them have it and provide one to us as well".
Maybe a better solution would be to get each woman a straight razor or a knife. They would need to give it back before leaving and then they only need no more than there seats.
Still, I like the pink.
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE MENS?!?!?!
Ah, male privilege at its finest...
here's hoping the bus crashes into a wall
better yet falls off a cliff, with all the feminist inside dying,
wuhahaha,
this world has gone fucking crazy, what a stupid gay bus and idea
If you don;t want female only services then start fining anf jailing harshly idits that can'y wank alone by themselfs in the dark in their own damn closet... or at least with a consenting friend in private...
And they wonder they have a low birthrate...
The more developed a country is the more are men and women separated...
Very soon you'll see man cross-dressing as women in order to get into these bus
Female-only bus = potential target by hold-ups.
I guess the male-only bus would be similar to an APC with moe decorations
Mexico City has women only services too, which I personally hate.
The first 2 subway wagons are women only.
And then there are buses which are also women only.
How it pisses me off to see the women's wagon half empty, while the rest reassemble a tuna can.
privacy curtains? really?!
Most unisex 'classy' buses I've been on have curtains. It's not unique.
Glad to see there are people out there fighting the good fight.
Those kind of buses have been operating in Mexico City for a while now. Implemented by the government of the city.
In future, "Hideyoshi-only" bus will come out. XD
F-F-f-f-f-F*CK YOU!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQgpgexALj4
HUAHUAHUHAU
i laugh looking at these!!
Japan so crazy now, late in the future, there sure gonna be war between man and woman^^
Haha more likely. Reminds me of Vandread series.
Fun fact:
The male planet, while very very spartan, had a functioning society.
The female planet however slowly killed itself because of the females vanity.
with men making men with other men. now that is scary
Heh, those buses look pretty cute inside. I'd like to ride on them, but it seems they're only in Okinawa.
Still, I propose that next they make some super GAR man-only buses with spikes and chains and a really manry interior. Also Krauser from Detroit Metal City is the bus-driver. Just to even it out.
On the man only bus put a giant tiger face on the front of the bus.... because it looks cool.
If they're that eager to implement single gender-only buses then why don't they tackle another age old issue also, making toilets for homosexuals...
actually if a men only bus were to be made then every feminazi whould scream about how this is discriminative.
No joke, they think that by creating women only train is a way to balance the discrimination against women.
When I read that, I instantly thought of Hard Gay doing that.
If He'd be the driver of a male-only bus then:
*bishounen rides as a virgin*
afterwards:
*bishounen comes out ravaged*
I would ride a man-only bus if it has a TV showing a yuri hentai.
I was just thinking that it's kind of impossible to have "gender equality" with BS like this going on. But then, they don't really want equality..they just want to lord over men (who toil at work all day), while they lazily sit at home. It's funny how japanese men seem to pwn themselves over and over...
and make the MANBUS a fapfest? no thanks. they should show either an extremely grotesque (borderline banned) movie or play LOUD metal on the MANBUS >:D
Man bus sounds hellishly gay. I aint goin in no sausage bus. And for the idea of the yuri video....
Yeah, i totally want to see a bunch of guys fapping to hentai while im in the bus going to school. That doesn't say gay as fucking hell.
@ratrat it would have captives from the female only bus engaging in lesbian sex, not tv ;)
Japan? You don't mean the hyper xenophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-individualistic Japan? My dear home Japan? Dear anti-foreigner Japan? SHOCK!
Japan is WAY more openly racist, anti-immigration, and xenophobic than the US. The US might have a very vocal group of extremists, but you will never be accepted as a foreigner in Japan.
Ever.
Anon, I never bashed Japan for what it is. If you had to ask, America is much worse with the racism, violence and segregation in more open ways. Segregation and anti-immigrant attitudes aren't as rambunctious in Japan as it is in America, but it's always there underneath the social issues in Japan. Also, it's still a very widespread issues which also includes inequality of women in the workforce.
Also, I believe if you TRULY love Japan, you should be able to criticize its weak spots so they can be hammered out.
There's so much you can't do in Japan as a foreigner that you could probably do in the UK, Canada or the US. For example being a doctor. If you finished med school outside Japan you need to take a Japanese medical exam in Japanese if you want to practice medicine there. Even if you pass this exam, who the fuck wants a foreign doctor? Basically it'd be impossible for you to be a doctor in Japan you'd have to be an English teacher with a medschool degree.
If you're an IT Engineer? Same shit, you have no option for promotion and you get paid less than a Japanese person and you just wanna leave cause the conditions suck.
Foreigners can't do anything in Japan except teach English because of various barriers and I'm not even talking about language. At least the US lets people do what they want with their lives as long as they assimilate. A white person can never truly be Japanese, but a Japanese can be an American if he tries hard enough. Sure there'll be a few racist snobs, but he'll still have more rights as an American than a white person will as a Japanese.
You'd think a nation with tons of veiled and semi-veiled racism and xenophobia can do sexism just fine.
What does all this have to do with the woman-only bus!?
probably that amongst all those things, sexism and segregation is among its lesser problems on a global scale.
Maybe so alidan.
What strikes me as funny is that modern Chinese economy is so open towards females in the workforce that there's a TON of female Chinese CEOs over there. And of course, the rest of their civil liberties is gutter trash replete with 'kill vans'. lol
Every nations has their civil rights cross to bear, but Japan is like a huge wall of civil rights issues. In every front there's some kind of problem...
then you are as racist as they are
you are not talking about one or a few people but on a whole nation
and racism isn't a person but about race
you do not miss a chance to offend the Japanese or Japan
I am not Japanese but have lived in Japan for a few years so I know that Japan is not formed by only one type of person as you think like anywhere in the world there are good people and bad people
(sorry my bad english)
*reads all the comments above him...And below him as well*
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I just had a revelation!!!
*steam comes out from under his helmet*
I call it, "Muchi! Muchi! Maid Mobile"...A bus full of (scantilly-clad) maids off to server their young master or mistress~
However, the passengers that should ride on it should only be elementary girls and boys...
It's much more hott--uh, safer for the maids inside the bus that way~
Basically, they ride in a bus full of beautiful women from Schoolgirls to Office MILFs, and they serve you desserts and coffee like in a regular maid cafe...And other things...
But they are all inside a bus like the one pictured above (or something much more bigger but equally similar)...
From the "Onee/Onii-chan~" loli-types to the "Baka! Shinu ni iku!" abusive tsunderes...The bus will serve, serve, serve~
They ride it while the maids 'serve' their needs (whatever those are) until they reach your destination...School~
I understand what I said was pretty tasteless...
But I hope someone out there in Japan will turn my little revelation into a loli straight-shota MILF hentai doujin...
*crosses his fingers and hope it gets released in the next Comiket or something*
EDIT:
The double comments always happen to me when Sankaku is busy...Sorry about that...
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I just had a revelation..!
I call it, "Muchi! Muchi! Maid Mobile"...
basically, you ride in a bus fool of beautiful women of from Schoolgirl to Office MILF, and they serve you deserts and coffee like in a regular maid cafe...And other things...
But you are all inside a bus like the one pictured above...
You ride it, the maids 'serve' you until you reach your destination...
I feel the urge to cross dress and ride such a women only bus groping my way through as many cute girls as possible. ^_^
I know some quite hot cougars. ^_^
Only problem would be if the bus was full of man-eating cougars out for man-meat... :))
@Schrobby If you'd attempt that, you'd only prove their point.
Now, if only there'd be a REAL female chikan doing this, ...
GO TO DMC ..
And you don't get normal seats, you only get toilets and magazines.
For each female exclusive bus already made, there needs to be one MANBUS where only MEN are allowed, and one partybus where both men and women would be allowed to board... naked.
That'd also solve Japan's huge birthrate problems!!!
"there needs to be one MANBUS where only MEN are allowed"
Do not want saucage fest.
Also. How can people grope on buses with seats like that? It can happen in packed trains, but there's no way you would go unnoticed with seats like that. What's the goddamn point?
It is not a solution to overcrowding (a problem with questionable impact anyway, given technological advancement), it's that their population is aging. As you get older, you become less able to take care of yourself, and so you need people to take care of you (not just like nursing, but in general economic production). If you don't have kids growing up to handle the production, you end up in a situation where the population is no longer able to support the basic needs of life.
(The US is facing a similar problem with Social Security, where pretty soon there will be two workers per retiree, an unsustainable number.)
And I'm sorry, but I find the idea of basic social policy on the notion of "If they can't meet their own food needs then they ought to cut back on Population" to be a deeply disturbing one. Any social policy based on the elimination of "excess population" is one to be fought against.
Nobody but Gay men would ride MANBUS, and come to think about it, nobody but gay men would ride partybus either...
And how dumb do you have to be to think that the low birthrate is due to not enough people being naked?
Japanese people have enough sex, they just aren't stupid enough to become single mothers, with broke Dads like in the UK and US. Japan is missing the thing that gives Western Countries a high birthrate: White trash.
And Japan's low birthrate is a non-problem for an overcrowded nation anyhow. Japan and Korea have much greater population density than China. If they can't meet their own food needs then they ought to cut back on Population.
The problem is the outrageous pension plans that Japan is supporting. Just raise the Japanese social security age, and retirement age.
The "low birthrate" is just Nationalist Propaganda.
separate but equal
the MANBUS idea could work if it looked MANLY enough and you could get(for free)/buy an ice cold beer from the bus driver when you bought your ticket :D
I wonder can traps ride the bus.
So only elementary boys are allowed?
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"In other news, an elementary school boy was arrested for groping passengers in an all-female carriage. Officers at the next train station commented, saying he had the right to board the women-only carriage as only children of elementary age are allowed onboard."
That was reverse rape.
I bet that bus is full of shota lovers femnazi, if an elementary school (boy) student get on those he will probably get gangraped (they already have the curtains).
BTW those busses are the same that we use here (argentina) for long distance travel...think doing 1.400 km on that shit...if you dont die in the road :/
Reminds me of that hentai doujin where a two shotas got molested on a train full of girls and MILFs...
What a great time to be a shota...
*salutes*