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Old 08-16-2017, 09:11 PM   #51 (permalink)
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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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Old 08-16-2017, 09:11 PM   #52 (permalink)
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Old 08-16-2017, 09:13 PM   #53 (permalink)
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Old 08-16-2017, 09:19 PM   #54 (permalink)
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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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Old 08-16-2017, 09:31 PM   #56 (permalink)
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Serves her right. She shouldn't be bringing a donkey to a train station, ffs!
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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.
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What makes you think I hear about them on the news? There are tons of websites, forums etc.
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Old 08-17-2017, 05:29 AM   #59 (permalink)
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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.
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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.
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