The Japan thread

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by Mord

Yes. Being drunk is a legitimate defense in a Japanese court of law. I'm not kidding. Actually, it won't even get to court. The police will just let you off with a warning if you're drunk, unless you do something heinous (like kill someone or wreck a significant yen amount of property).

What if it's just less serious domestic violence?

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[Frownland]

Originally Posted by Trollheart

Surely also illegal? Those crazy Japanese? Try that anywhere else I bet you'd be arrested on the spot. The guys who do that always seem to do it surreptitiously, and with good reason. Toe cameras, or something? Shoes? I don't know: but I doubt many would run after a girl with a camera to point it up her skirt in public!

Those are just the novel ones that you hear about on the news. Consider what doesn't get reported.

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[Trollheart]

Serves her right. She shouldn't be bringing a donkey to a train station, ffs!

[Trollheart]

Originally Posted by Frownland

Those are just the novel ones that you hear about on the news. Consider what doesn't get reported.

What makes you think I hear about them on the news? There are tons of websites, forums etc.

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by Trollheart

What makes you think I hear about them on the news? There are tons of websites, forums etc.

Are you for real right now?

[pastelcrowd]

Originally Posted by Mord

One time another friend of mine (half Japanese, from California) grabbed a woman's ass at a train station. His Japanese is perfect, and mine was crap at the time because I'd been in Japan only a short time. She screamed and ran to the police box (a mini police station in or around train stations). The cops came out and hauled us in. I was bewildered, because I hadn't even seen him do it. We were both stumbling home drunk from the bar. But I used my limited Japanese and bowed profusely when I understood what my friend had done. I apologized for him, told the cops he was drunk, and promised to make sure he got home safe. The cops let us go with only a warning. I have no idea what happened to the woman, whether she was pissed off nothing happened or what.

Scared the **** out of me for some reason.

[Cuthbert]

Originally Posted by Trollheart

Surely also illegal?

It's not illegal in England and Wales. There is a thing at the moment where a woman who got 'upskirted' is trying to get the law changed.

Cameras on mobile phones have been good for a lot of reasons but they've also been very bad.