
Police have arrested one chikan and are hunting another after the pair joined an online chikan mash-up on a train to grope a woman egging them on from a chikan forum – only to find out they were victimising an innocent woman whose clothing and position on the train mysteriously matched the instructions left for them on the forum.
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As usual Taiwan is as (if not more) enthusiastic about moe girls as Japan itself, with some seriously cute carriages on display on the nation’s rails.
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An 11-year-old boy has stunned Japan by throwing himself under a train in an effort to prevent the imminent closure of his school, pleading in his suicide note for the merger to be cancelled.
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Yet another annual ritual is going strong – Snow Miku’s descent onto the streets of Sapporo, as she again graces the city’s tram lines with her crushing cuteness.
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A top executive with Japan Rail has killed himself after being arrested for groping a schoolgirl, which he denied even in his suicide note.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Dec 17, 2012 08:40 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Buses, Cars, China, Crime, Exhibitionism, Fujian, Toilets, Trains

A man brazenly urinating from the window of a bus into passing traffic is the latest example of China’s public toileting habits to outrage the nation.
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Chinese subway goers have ranked the most unforgivable breaches of etiquette they are forced to endure on the nation’s trains, including such pearls of wisdom as “not defecating in the train” and “not allowing children to go to the toilet on the floor.”
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The majority of Japanese women think men who take their dates to the venue using a train rather than a car “deserve to be single for life,” “have no right to love” and are “abusing women,” according to a recent article – which has predictably proven highly incendiary amongst Japan’s increasingly carless men.
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Police have declined to prosecute one of their officers who was caught groping a woman on a train, “in order to protect her feelings.”
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IBM Japan’s CEO has been unveiled as a sex criminal after he was caught putting his iPod up the skirt of an unsuspecting female victim, although IBM insists his abrupt resignation was due to “personal reasons” and refuses to comment on the fact it has apparently been under the control of a common chikan for the past 13 years.
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