Is Japan Really Safe For Foreign Women?

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  @takashiifromjapan · 8 months ago · pinned

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• CH

  @ChocolateMuffin308 · 4 years ago (edited)

  This girl claimed she feels safe, then proceeded to say she was punched and no one cared to help. That&apos;s the most dangerous place you can be - a society that turns away from you when you&apos;re attacked. You can literally never be safe in a place like that.

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• JE

  @jessieperson · 4 years ago

  As a woman who&apos;s lived in Japan for 5 years, I will say it&apos;s relatively safe to walk around alone, even at night (depending on the area). However, as with pretty much all countries, it is generally less safe to live here as a woman than as a man. I have been followed a few times and have had to loop around so as not to give away where I was living. If I&apos;m walking alone in areas like Shinjuku or Shibuya, there is a good chance I&apos;ll be stopped by guys doing nanpa (&quot;girls hunting&quot;). When I first came here, I was very naive and didn&apos;t understand completely that that was what they were doing, because sometimes they were lowkey about it, like &quot;Teach me English, please&quot; or &quot;Where are you from?&quot;. But make no mistake, people in Tokyo don&apos;t just stop and talk to you for no purpose. If they do, I would just be wary. Don&apos;t assume you&apos;re safe just because it&apos;s Japan and take precautions like you would in any other country.

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• ZI

  @Zimbleton · 3 years ago

  I sent my daughter to Japan for a week with my sister as a 13th birthday present. My daughter was sexually groped on a bus for a minute while my sister was distracted with her baby a few meters away. My daughter was petrified and couldn&apos;t scream but curled up into a ball while fending him off. After a minute, a few other people on the bus noticed and told him to stop and chased him off the bus but the bus driver refused to call the polics or report it. &nbsp;My sister was very apologetic for not noticing and then told me she had 3 similar incidents on public transport whilst living in Japan for 2 years. I wanted my daughter to have a life changing experience but not like that. My daughter needed lots of counselling when she returned and is still affected. Riding buses gives her flashbacks. :(

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• PU

  @pupu416 · 3 years ago (edited)

  The part about Japanese people not helping is sadly true😢 I never forget visiting Tokyo as teenager 5 years ago when I saw fragile elderly japanese man collapse so that he hit his head hardly on concrete. I remember being shocked and looking how all the locals just kept walking over him. I felt nervous to approach cause I barely spoke 5 words in japanese at that time but I still had to, because no one else did. I was very concerned that he would get brain damage (he was very fragile looking). I muttered to him ”daijoubu desu ka” and he awkwardly just tried to say that its ok. I did not know what to do since for all I know he could have been run away elderly person who now has internal damage lying there on busy street (yes, nobody still stopped). Finally his wife/elredly lady comes and I helped her to get him up from the ground. This truly shocked me, since I had liven in the impression that japanese people respect elders but this was far from it.

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• MI

  @Mizuyah · 4 years ago (edited)

  I’m with the Swiss girl. My concern is that no one will help me if I ever get into any real trouble. I have felt faint on the trains; I’ve crouched in front of a vending machine after feeling ill when I’ve been alone and no one came to check on me. I’ve even heard people talking about me and speculating what might be wrong with me, but no help whatsoever. Bystander apathy is really bad here, so I can’t imagine the police helping me either.

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• AK

  @akane9388 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Doesn&apos;t matter whether you are a foreigner or not. As a Japanese woman myself, I&apos;ve encountered creepy men here in Japan before. I apologize on behalf of that person and bystanders on a bus who attacked this woman from Switzerland and did absolutely nothing about it. Most of Japanese aren&apos;t really confrontational and due to lack of English skills, we tend to shy away especially in that type of situation, doesn&apos;t mean it excuses their behavior at all.

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• BE

  @ben-taobeneton3945 · 4 years ago

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• EC

  @echosmoon5605 · 3 years ago

  I was on the train, and I saw this dude take a picture of this girls underskirt I grabbed his phone real quick and got her attention. He tried to cover his face and I got in his face using the translator telling him to delete it or I’m calling the cops. He ended up deleting and the girl asked me to stay next to her until she got off. I don’t like to make scenes cuz I’m a foreigner but I saw that and couldn’t stand by

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• LI

  @Linoxism · 4 years ago

  The girl from Switzerland’s story made me angry. I live in Japan, and I can confirm people do NOT intervene. My Japanese teachers have said that you should help if you can, but it’s definitely not the norm here. This is the one thing I would love to see change.

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• PV

  @pvstelkitty · 3 years ago (edited)

  @ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2bstM49sJk&amp;t=416">6:56</a> there is an old man taking pictures of the woman from London doing the interview... proved the point about some of the older men taking pictures of foreign women. :(

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• KE

  @kelsy808 · 4 years ago

  Walking around Japan from 1am to about 5am alone (due to a horribly delayed flight layover) was the safest I had ever felt in any major city.

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