A man molests a young woman sitting next to him on a Japanese train, drags her to a restroom and rapes her while she sobs. Some 40 fellow passengers fail to intervene. ›
“There is still widespread belief in ‘rape myths’,” said Masayo Niwa, an official at the Centre for Education and Support for Women, Japan, referring to the perception, contrary to law, that only assaults by strangers can be defined as “rape”.
“Victims don’t report cases because they think society can’t be trusted to believe them,” she said
