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A sign outside of a bicycle parking lot in Chiba, Japan, warns "Beware of Chikan."

Chikan (痴漢, チカン, or ちかん) is a Japanese term referring to an obscene act conducted against the victim's will, or a person who commits such an act. The term is frequently used to describe men^[1] who take advantage of the crowded conditions on the public transit systems to touch people sexually. While the term is not defined in the Japanese legal system, vernacular usage of the word describes acts that violate several laws. The neologism referring to the corresponding female chikan is chijo. In clinical psychology, this desire is called frotteurism. Although women on crowded trains in Japan are the most frequent targets of chikan, sexual predators in Japan can take advantage of people of either sex in other situations as well. One such situation (warned against in the picture, right) is bicycle parking lots, where a molester will wait until a woman or man is bent over, unlocking his or her bicycle lock, and then grope him or her from behind. Chikan often features in Japanese pornography, along with other non-consensual themes. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... It has been suggested that Chikan (body contact) be merged into this article or section. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 189 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (477 × 1512 pixel, file size: 592 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A sign outside of a bicycle parking lot in Chiba, Japan, warns Beware of Perverts. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 189 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (477 × 1512 pixel, file size: 592 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A sign outside of a bicycle parking lot in Chiba, Japan, warns Beware of Perverts. ... Chijo (痴女) is Japanese term for female chikan or frottophilia who largely exists only in Japanese mens imagination and Japanese pornography. ... The Greek letter Psi is often used as a symbol of psychology. ... It has been suggested that Chikan (body contact) be merged into this article or section. ... Japanese pornography has some unique features which separate it from pornography in other cultures, especially Western pornography. ...

As part of the effort to combat chikan, some railway companies have designated women-only passenger cars.^[2][3][4] Sign indicating boarding point for women only cars Women-only passenger cars ), are women-only cars offered on some Japanese train lines. ...

One high-profile instance is that of economist and former professor at the graduate school of Waseda University Kazuhide Uekusa who has a string of arrests for sex-related offences, the most recent of which came when he was arrested for molesting a schoolgirl on a train on September 13, 2006. Waseda University ), often abbreviated to Sodai ) is a co-educational, private university in Japan. ... Kazuhide Uekusa ) was born December 18, 1960 in Edogawa, Tokyo. ... is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

See also

• Chijo
• Masashi Tashiro
• Saikyō Line
• Sexual harassment

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References

1. ^ Daijirin dictionary entry for chikan
2. ^ The His and Hers Subway
3. ^ "Japan Tries Women-Only Train Cars to Stop Groping: Tokyo Subway Experiment Attempts to Slow Epidemic of Subway Fondling" An ABC News article.
4. ^ "Women-Only Cars on Commuter Trains Cause Controversy in Japan"