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Aichi Prefectural Police Turn to Pretty Boys to Stop Train Groping
posted on by Eric Stimson
As fashion gradually changes with the warming weather, incidents of molestation and illicit photography on Japanese trains increase. That's why the Aichi prefectural police are launching a campaign to eradicate molestation and make women feel safer on transit. They're spreading the word through crime prevention lectures, musical performances, public announcements broadcast from vans... and pretty guys who look like they've stepped out of a girls' dating sim.
The boys say, "It's so stupid... bothering other people. Are you throwing your life away?," "I can't believe it... as a man, I'm ashamed," and "I'd like to see the face of a parent... those despicable actions are MOLESTATION."
The poster has garnered attention online, with a tweet of the above picture garnering over 27,000 retweets. Reactions have been decidedly mixed, with some wondering whether the images target the wrong audience. "Do they want to inflame inferiority complexes and make them snap?" asked one netizen. Others thought the campaign would work or wondered whether this meant that sexual harassment of men was on the rise.
Aichi Prefecture has used anime-style art in its anti-groping campaigns before in 2014 and 2015, but the images chosen were decidedly different.
"Are you all right? Were you groped?"
"Cameras are aimed at you!"
Groping and indecent photography are ongoing problems on Japan's crowded trains. A Kinnikuman cosplayer was caught groping other cosplayers and got reprimanded by Yudetamago, the manga's creator, last year.
Sources: Gadget Tsūshin: Taka and Biglobe News
