ABSTRACT
This chapter reports from Tokyo and Kanagawa, where a survey on sexual transit crime was conducted at different universities. The chapter introduces some basic information about the sample (400 students, with a gender distribution of 196 men, 196 women, and eight identifying as ‘other’) and presents empirical findings for users of rail, subways, and buses. As many as 46% of women and 20% of men reported that they had experienced sexual violence in transit, while around 5% to 15% of the sample reported that they rarely or never felt safe on the transit vehicle or waiting for trains/buses. The most common precaution by women on both buses and trains was ‘dressing in a certain way.’ The chapter briefly summarizes the main findings from the case study and makes suggestions for research and practice.
