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A man was arrested on suspicion of non-consensual indecency after allegedly touching a woman’s lower body in a subway concourse in Sapporo. A passerby reported, “There’s a man touching a woman’s genitals,” and the man reportedly admitted to the charge, saying, “There’s no doubt I touched her lower body.” On 5ch’s Newsplus board, opinions split between those who suspected the pair might just have been a couple getting handsy in public and those who thought the woman was drunk and unable to resist. Others pointed to past group indecency cases, arguing that any non-consensual act is a serious crime regardless.
STV News Hokkaido
September 7
2026
Source: youtu.be / Original article here
What people said
If it's a public place, just report it regardless.
It's non-consensual though, right?
O-okay…
If that's the logic, then the person who reported it should've been arrested for peeping too, shouldn't they?
But joking aside, since the man's already admitted to it, that excuse won't fly.
So they were groping each other and a stranger reported them?
In Hokkaido — "The Testing Ground" (an old Hokkaido tourism slogan) — let your guard down and you lose.
He touched her because the mood felt right, but he never actually got her consent — that's what makes it a foul.
Yeah, it's on a whole different dimension.
Christmas is gonna get wild, then.
Who cares about that, lol
It's just "don't do it in the concourse!", lol
If the woman looked like she was resisting, yeah, I guess I'd report it too.
If there was no consent, this used to fall under quasi-forcible indecency — that's a genuinely heinous crime. It's the same thing the "Super Free" rape circle at Waseda University did.
Even if it was consensual, that's still public indecency.
Background and Key Points of This Story
The crime of non-consensual indecency was newly established in Japan’s 2023 revision of the Penal Code. Its key difference from the older quasi-forcible indecency statute is that it hinges on whether the other party consented, rather than on whether violence or intimidation was involved. Since the man has admitted to the charge himself, the bar for prosecution is thought to be low. On the thread, opinions split between “if it was just a couple fooling around, it’s a shame the one who got reported” and “it’s a public space, so it’s a problem regardless of consent” — and the discussion proceeded without much clarity on the difference in scope between public indecency and non-consensual indecency. The fact that the investigation was triggered solely by a bystander’s report also raises the question of whether privacy or public safety should take priority.
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