[Excerpt: A police report in February said groping on Tokyo trains had tripled over the past eight years. It urged rail firms to set up more women-only cars. ]
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C624B9D1-7435-4EF5-A611-FF2B39A04B4F.htm Japan women get own subway cars Monday 04 April 2005, 9:22 Makka Time, 6:22 GMT Police said 2201 cases of groping took place last year on trains Tokyo has began its first women-only subway car during the morning rush hour in a bid to crack down on groping, which is rampant on the Japanese capital's crowded trains. The special carriage, which started operating on Monday, runs from 7.30am to 9.30am on the Saikyo Line. This line does a loop around Tokyo and is notorious for groping due to the relatively long distance between stations. A women's car during evening rush hour has been in operation since July 2002 on the Saikyo Line, whose stops include Japan's busiest station Shinjuku, the entertainment district of Shibuya and central Tokyo Station. A police report in February said groping on Tokyo trains had tripled over the past eight years. It urged rail firms to set up more women-only cars. "We are going to study whether we will expand to other lines in the future," a spokesman for the East Japan Railway Co, which operates the Saikyo Line, said. Logistical problems Other big cities in Japan such as Osaka have already introduced women-only cars during morning rush hour. But Tokyo presented more logistical problems due to its large number of lines, which carry a million people a day. A number of other railway companies in Tokyo are due to start women-only cars in May on their busiest lines or on rapid trains which tend to be more crowded than local trains. Police said 2201 cases of groping and more serious sexual assault took place last year on trains, with one-third of the victims being high-school girls. The cases led to 1886 arrests, with offenders' ages ranging from 14 to 80. AFP enditem ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Give underprivileged students the materials they need to learn. Bring education to life by funding a specific classroom project. http://us.click.yahoo.com/FHLuJD/_WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
