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Japanese public transit is ''very''
As of 2006, the Japanese subways have addressed this problem by establishing women-only cars on every train. These are reportedly ''quite'' popular. However, their failure to put a dent in numbers of cases resulted in the introduction of routine undercover police patrols of subways in 2009, coupled with new awareness campaigns to encourage reporting and prosecution of offenders.
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This problem, incidentally, is also common in other crowded countries with traditionally very patriarchal cultures: India, Indonesia, Taiwan, Egypt, Brazil, and Mexico have, inspired by Japan, all started designating certain passenger cars in their public transport networks (subways, commuter railways, and even bus lines) as women-only for basically the same reason.
Many anime and manga series have at least one episode where a female character encounters a ''chikan'' who must be confronted or evaded.
''Please'' do not confuse with [[The Chick]]. Or with the fried stuff that KFC serves. ''Or'' with [[Kannazuki no Miko|Chikan]]''[[Zettai Shoujo Seiiki Amnesian|e]]'', although [[Yuri|considering her preference]] {{spoiler|and [[Reincarnation Romance|reincarnating]] nature}}, she can be an example of this in the future.
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** There's also a fairly well-known doujinshi group known as Black Dog, which specializes in [[Sailor Moon]] Chikan stories (other series too, but the [[Sailor Moon]] ones are the most famous). For some reason, despite going on the trains to stop the chikan over and over, the senshi ''still'' always end up groped and raped.
*** Though to be fair, most of the manga by that group usually end with the perpetrators getting their asses royally kicked by the Sailor Scouts. In one story, the groping and raping were actually part of the ''Sailors' '' plan from the beginning!
* ''[[I My Me! Strawberry Eggs|I! My! Me! Strawberry Eggs]]''
* ''[[Tenshi
* ''[[Chou Kuse
* ''[[Great Teacher Onizuka]]'': In a rare case of the ''chikan'' being a regular character, our hero pounds one on the bus in an early episode, only to find out that the molester is his new boss.
** Said boss eventually ends up landing in serious hot water when he's caught by an undercover policewoman, leaving his things in the train when he flees in a panic. Naturally, Onizuka finds it, and fearing blackmail, the boss decides to not go forward in his latest "get Onizuka fired" plot.
* Futana from ''[[Futaba
* Nanoka runs into a chikan on her way to school during an episode of ''[[Koi Kaze]]''. It's not a major plot point, but it occurs shortly after Nanoka got into an argument with her older brother Koshiro because she felt he was being annoyingly overprotective of her, and the experience led her to appreciate that Koshiro meant well.
* In the ''[[Love Hina]]'' Christmas Special, Motoko is groped by one on a subway; her response, being Motoko, is violence. But unlike the vast majority of violence she was able to inflict in [[Love Hina]] to that point, this time, [[Reality Ensues|her beating the man almost gets her arrested.]]
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* Hilariously done when [[Jerk Jock|Agon]] and [[Magnificent Bastard|Hiruma]] save a girl from one of these in ''[[Eyeshield 21]]''. After being sent a live video feed of said girl being harassed by a chikan, Agon immediately leaves where he is, goes to the subway, and ''rips the man from the train while it's moving.'' Agon then gets to work on getting under the girl's skirt while Hiruma goes on to blackmail the chikan.
* In ''[[Aoi Hana]]'', the characters meet again after Fumi is molested on the train. Akira stomps on the Chikan's foot after she recognizes Fumi's expression and advises she remember to do that in the future.
** Briefly referenced to in ''[[Wandering Son]]'', by the same mangaka. Once beginning high school, Chiba began going on the train. She says she encountered a pervert, but nothing much is said about it. Starting from then, she lets her mom drive her to school.
** Shimura seems to have a thing for Chikan in her manga. In one of her earlier manga ''Inhabitants of the Threshold'' the protagonist - who was a boy - gets molested by a man on the bus, and Yuki from ''[[Wandering Son]]'' gets groped by a man on the train but then becomes his friend in a spinoff.
* In ''[[Change 123]]'' Motoko is molested by a chikan on the way to meet Kosukegawa, she is so flustered that her [[Split Personality]] [[Blood Knight|Hibiki]] takes control and reaches down to meet the pervert's fingers. At first he believes she is getting into it, but needless to say this was not the case.
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* In the ''[[Midori Days]]'' manga, several girls in Ayase's class get their skirt slit by a pervert on the subway. Ayase's response is to dress Seiji in drag and have him accompany her on the train. Naturally, [[Attractive Bent Gender|his (uninformed) male friends think him the hottest thing ever]]. He catches the pervert ripping [[Tsundere|Ayase]]'s dress and proceeds to beat the crap out of him, only [[Clothing Damage|partially losing his disguise]] in the process. [[Accidental Pervert|And accidentally ripping off Ayase's skirt.]]
* In an episode of ''[[Speed Grapher]]'', a guy grabs Kagura's ass on a subway, however, since Kagura is a sheltered rich girl who knows very little about the real world and has never even been on the subway before, she doesn't do anything about it and just giggles and blushes. A bit later when Saiga asks what she was giggling about, she tells him a guy was "tickling" her; Saiga tells her the guy was a pervert and she should have told him about it sooner.
* In ''[[
* Parodied in an episode and chapter of ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou
* Inverted for comedy in the Yamatogawa's one-shot ''Train Woman''. A group of high school girls try this on a rather effeminate-looking male classmate, only for him to turn the tables on them.
* In ''[[Girl Friends]]'', Sugi encounters one during her [[A Day in
* A short one in ''[[Deep Love]]'' where a man molests Ayu on a train, she lets him and robs him afterwards (charging the amount she would for regular johns). She throws the money away afterwards.
* In ''[[
* This issue is only referenced, never explained in [[Seitokai Yakuindomo]]. In episode one, main character Takatoshi finds himself in a subway car nearly exclusively populated by women. To keep from being falsely accused, he assumes the same position as all the other men: riding with his hands held high so that no one can call him a molester. It's a social issue that's played for laughs, [[Gag Series|like most other things in the series]].
* In an early chapter of ''Pump Up!'' [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|Mizutama]] gets groped by an old man on the bus. He found the experience so embarrassing that he started crying.
* [[
* In an early chapter of ''[[
== Comic Books ==
* [[Voltaire (
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Western example: The main character in ''A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'' is groped on a train. Her aunt considers it a [[She
** Especially strange as, earlier in the book, she was almost raped. Not in a [[Rape Is Love]] sense, either.
** [[Truth in Television|This is, in fact, less "strange" than you'd hope.]]
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The story of ''[[Densha Otoko]]'' (''Train Man''), both in real life and the dramatized TV version, starts with a loser confronting a chikan on the subway and unexpectedly winning a date for his trouble.
* They try to set up a sting for this on ''[[Reno 911!]]'', but since the "bait" is Dep. Weigel no one tries it.
* An incident with a tv reporter who had her bottom pinched while in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3f6WMSXQNg middle of a live report].
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* A ''[[Sexy Losers]]'' strip (titled [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Chikan Fingers]]) features a chikan who runs into a not-so-wholesome crossdresser, who [[Crosses the Line Twice|threatens to scream if he stops]]. (And that's not even the punch line.)
* [[Ax Crazy]] Banana Bazooka in ''[[Gorgeous Princess Creamy Beamy]]'' encounters two of these. In the next strip, they run off the train screaming, their arms severed at the shoulders, and she runs after them waving a [[BFS]]
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[
** Actually Equality Now (the moral guardians) organized spam campaigns against the game companies. Also they succeeded in banning erotic games containing certain fetishes such as chikan, bondage, incest, adultery, or rape.
** Then there's ''Itazura Gokuaku'', about a serial chikan and some of his regular victims. Also has 'Hays Code' endings, with the protagonist either turning himself in and rehabilitating, or getting thrown onto the tracks to his death by one of his victims.
* Lei-Fang's ending in ''[[Dead or Alive]]'' 4 is a perfect example of [[Values Dissonance]]. A man stumbles on a train and accidentally grabs Lei-Fang's breasts as he's falling. She responds by kicking him out of the train's windows, where he plummets into a river. The situation is [[Played for Laughs]] (mostly thanks to the intentional [[Narm]] especially the main lyric of the BGM being "Touch me"), and the crowd gets up and gives Lei-Fang a standing ovation. Find the video on [[YouTube]] and read the comments to get an idea of how disturbing this is to Westerners.
** Though some of the commenters do seem to think it was [[Disproportionate Retribution]] and the guy may have been killed.
** Some of the applause was probably due to her shirt unbuttoning and her skirt slitting up to her pantyline.
* In ''[[Twinbee
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