FEATURE: With few help programs, Japan's sex offenders won't stop

Compared with other developed countries, Japan often gets a bad reputation for crimes related to sexual harassment including voyeurism, train molestations and worse.Societal norms and a culture of silence often hinder reporting and law enforcement. According to an online survey conducted last year by the Cabinet Office, over 10 percent of people aged 16 to 29 have been groped, mostly on trains. Few reported the incidents.Some 36,000 people provided responses to the survey, which found that 13.6 percent of women and 3.6 percent of men said they had been groped or otherwise molested.The gover…READ FULL ARTICLE