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Japan has women-only train cars[1] due to the prevalence of groping and other forms of sexual assault on their transit systems

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women-only_passenger_car



Yes, true... but what is the rate of rape in Japan compared to the US/Sweden/South Africa?

Women walk alone at night in Japan. They feel safer than women in America.




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