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NEWS: Anime/Game Music Composer Hidekazu Tanaka Admits to Obscenity Charges in Court

"According to police, the girl reported the incident at a nearby neighborhood police outpost. Police then reportedly found footage from the station's security camera of a person following the girl."

Wait, but I was told Japan doesn't take this stuff seriously and it's so easy to molest women there and much more dangerous than other countries.

They don't always take it seriously and it is dangerous. Her case being treated right and there being evidence present doesn't contradict the fact that this stuff still happens a lot and there are a number of police who won't care or investigate. Like, I don't think you can look at a country that had to introduce female only carriages for trains and say "yes this place is 100% safe for women".

I think this article doesn't quite portray just how much of a legend in the anison industry this man is. Just look at the entire list of credits (might be missing a few) on vgmdb: https://vgmdb.net/artist/9621

He's one of the biggest names in anison. This is such a huge loss for the industry. All because he couldn't be a decent person. I hope the GIRL is okay (she's not a woman yet...).

Hoppy800 wrote:

Sounds like workplace stress needs to be addressed more in Japan, although, this guy does need jail to think about things but still these incidents will keep happening until the stress issue is resolved.

No amount of workplace stress is an excuse to sexually assault a child, and pretending those things are correlated is extremely gross.

harminia wrote:

They don't always take it seriously and it is dangerous. Her case being treated right and there being evidence present doesn't contradict the fact that this stuff still happens a lot and there are a number of police who won't care or investigate. Like, I don't think you can look at a country that had to introduce female only carriages for trains and say "yes this place is 100% safe for women".

Statistically speaking, it's much safer for women in Japan than most other countries: especially the likes of the US or the UK which most people try to compare it to. This is just an empirical fact given Japan's low crime rate - especially violent crimes. Japan is far from perfect, of course, but this idea that it's more dangerous for women in Japan than most other countries is just baseless fear mongering. I see this kind of crap all the time in New York. Worse, even! People here usually have knives or guns on them or are tweaked out.

As far as women only trains cars go, I would argue that's a sign that they do take it seriously, but the real issue is that a women only spaces in America usually never work because of discrimination laws that exist here that don't in Japan. There's been attempts at it like female-only fitness centers and movie theaters but they usually get sued for discrimination since in most states policies like that are not enforceable and exclusionary.
There's certainly a demand for women only spaces in America, it's just impossible to do unless it's a place where you're expected privacy like a bathroom or a locker room, but even those have their own challenges and controversies in the modern era.

But make no mistake if America could actually get away with women only or any kind of X only spaces without fearing a lawsuit they'd absolutely make them,. There's definitely demand for it and we see people try, but they almost always get dragged into court over it or relent on their policy. I remember a few years ago people tried to advertise a Black only anime convention and when non-Black people showed up and people got upset the con runners told them there was literally nothing they could do because kicking them out would be discrimination so they all had to just accept it.

Statistically speaking, it's much safer for women in Japan than most other countries: especially the likes of the US or the UK which most people try to compare it to. This is just an empirical fact given Japan's low crime rate - especially violent crimes. Japan is far from perfect, of course, but this idea that it's more dangerous for women in Japan than most other countries is just baseless fear mongering. I see this kind of crap all the time in New York. Worse, even! People here usually have knives or guns on them or are tweaked out.

As far as women only trains cars go, I would argue that's a sign that they do take it seriously, but the real issue is that a women only spaces in America usually never work because of discrimination laws that exist here that don't in Japan. There's been attempts at it like female-only fitness centers and movie theaters but they usually get sued for discrimination since in most states policies like that are not enforceable and exclusionary.
There's certainly a demand for women only spaces in America, it's just impossible to do unless it's a place where you're expected privacy like a bathroom or a locker room, but even those have their own challenges and controversies in the modern era.

But make no mistake if America could actually get away with women only or any kind of X only spaces without fearing a lawsuit they'd absolutely make them,. There's definitely demand for it and we see people try, but they almost always get dragged into court over it or relent on their policy. I remember a few years ago people tried to advertise a Black only anime convention and when non-Black people showed up and people got upset the con runners told them there was literally nothing they could do because kicking them out would be discrimination so they all had to just accept it.

As far as women only trains cars go, I would argue that's a sign that they do take it seriously, but the real issue is that a women only spaces in America usually never work because of discrimination laws that exist here that don't in Japan. There's been attempts at it like female-only fitness centers and movie theaters but they usually get sued for discrimination since in most states policies like that are not enforceable and exclusionary.
There's certainly a demand for women only spaces in America, it's just impossible to do unless it's a place where you're expected privacy like a bathroom or a locker room, but even those have their own challenges and controversies in the modern era.

Sadly, the survey results reveal that sexual harassment and assault is a common—
even routine—experience for SJSU student transit riders, whether they ride the bus or
train. Almost two-thirds (63%) of respondents who rode transit had experienced some
form of harassment while using transit. Verbal harassment was the most common form
of harassment, with 41% experiencing “obscene/harassing language” and 26% being
subjected to sexual comments. Among non-verbal types of harassment, 22% had been
stalked and 18% had been victims of indecent exposure. Physical harassment was less
common, but still, 11% of students had experienced groping or inappropriate touching.

Statistically speaking, it's much safer for women in Japan than most other countries: especially the likes of the US or the UK which most people try to compare it to. This is just an empirical fact given Japan's low crime rate - especially violent crimes.

Wait, but I was told Japan doesn't take this stuff seriously and it's so easy to molest women there and much more dangerous than other countries.

Don’t know about being more dangerous but there is still some….problems

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/21/japan-poised-to-raise-age-of-consent-from-13-in-overhaul-of-sexual-offence-laws

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20201123/p2a/00m/0na/024000c

https://nupoliticalreview.org/2021/01/31/cracking-japans-systemic-sexual-abuse-culture/

Americans really should not be making 'jokes' about things like Japanese police being useless

or Japanese laws being ineffective at protecting women. That glass house is mighty susceptible to stone throwing.

A man on trial for repeatedly raping his 19-year-old daughter was acquitted. Prosecutors alleged that he began raping the child when she was in junior high school. The judge recognized that the man continued to have non-consensual sex with his daughter and threatened to beat her if she refused.

The court ruling stated that it was difficult to conclude that the daughter was in a subordinate position to her father and that he had abused his power. Further, it said that it could not conclude definitively that it was "extremely difficult" psychologically for the daughter to resist her father's approaches -- in other words, she could have resisted if she wanted to.

Under Japanese criminal law, two conditions must be met to conclude that sexual assault has been committed. First, the victim must not have consented, and second, there must be proof that the victim was unable to resist due to physical violence or threats.

But I feel it falls into the xenophobic 'weird japan' angle a lot of people and media try to do by painting Japan as this weird, backwards country in 2023. It's especially worse when we remember how Asian people specifically have being targeted for attacks and discrimination in western countries since 2020.