Femin Tokyo

TW : se**al assault, pedocriminality

Kilara Sen is a 50% Japanese 50% Japanese woman based in the US, doing comedy and sharing her vision of the Japanese society through the lense of humour.

linktr.ee/Kilaracomedy

In the 11th episode of Femin, we are chatting about a few experiences Kilara had to go through, the specific concept of chikan. Chikan is the term used to descibe in Japan se**al aggressors in trains and other public spaces.

We discuss the specifics attached it, the stereotypes of it and the experiences Kilara is recounting in her articles on Medium:

https://kilaracomedy.medium.com/my-12-chikan-sexual-assault-stories-that-almost-japanese-women-would-relate-1-c9435fe01c5

A few more resources about the chikan problem:

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/16/asia/japan-chikan-groping-trains-survey-intl-hnk/index.html

https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/bbc-reports-on-japan's-'chikan'-problem-which-now-includes-videos?comment-order=latest

https://www.tokyoweekender.com/japan-life/news-and-opinion/bbc-documentary-exposes-chikan-videos/

Art by Doria Kriouche

https://paa.ge/doriashop/en

Episode sound mixing and editing by Mai Nguyen.

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