Anna Nakagawa (32), a former NHK announcer now working as a freelancer, updated her X (formerly Twitter) account on September 4th, revealing an unpleasant incident of physical contact she experienced on a train. She said a man sitting next to her pretended to be dozing off while letting his arm hang down and positioning his hand near the gap between her thighs, recalling how “it sent a chill down my spine” at the time. The post drew a wave of sympathy on a 5ch thread, but reactions were split — some argued she “should have reported it to the police before posting on social media,” while others suggested the close quarters of a packed train may have led to a misunderstanding.
Fri, Sep 4, 3:15 PM
Former NHK announcer, now freelance, Anna Nakagawa (32) updated her X (formerly Twitter) account on the 4th, writing about receiving inappropriate contact from a male passenger on a train and revealing that “it sent a chill down my spine.”
Nakagawa explained the situation at the time: “The man sitting next to me on the train was asleep and kept nearly leaning against me a few times, but that part didn’t really bother me.” However, she said there was then “suspicious behavior” — “he suddenly let his arm go limp and positioned it so his hand ended up between his and my thighs.”
Sekiguchi: "Whether you believe it or not is up to you" (a nod to TV host Hiroshi Sekiguchi's famous catchphrase from the show 'Unbelievable!')
18AnonymousSep 4, 2026 15:47
Announcer Anna Nakagawa shares her theory on men's "eye movements": "I could tell he'd just been looking at my chest" — "Women always know exactly where they're being looked at"
19AnonymousSep 4, 2026 15:48
Announcers shouldn't be riding trains — take a taxi. She's basically leaking her own personal info by doing that.
22AnonymousSep 4, 2026 15:48
Groping someone's lower body requires bending down, doesn't it? Or are these gropers all just short guys?
23AnonymousSep 4, 2026 15:48
A "dynamite honey" would be fine too, wouldn't it — wouldn't it — makes me dizzy just thinking about it ("dynamite honey" = old slang for a woman with a stunning figure)
24AnonymousSep 4, 2026 15:48
This person only ever talks about stuff like this.
27AnonymousSep 4, 2026 15:49
Once you're as good-looking as me, women sit right next to you even when there are other empty seats.
32AnonymousSep 4, 2026 15:52
Re: #27 As expected of Master Koyuzo (veteran rakugo comedian famous for racy jokes)
28AnonymousSep 4, 2026 15:50
This person's weapons are her English and her body.
29AnonymousSep 4, 2026 15:51
She's done a full lap through variety shows and now she's faded out — like an M-1 champion who can't handle unscripted talk (M-1 is Japan's top comedy competition).
31AnonymousSep 4, 2026 15:51
She's acting like she can't believe someone would actually do this, but that just shows how little she knows about the state of manners in Japan.
33AnonymousSep 4, 2026 15:52
Why post it on social media but not report it to the police?
34AnonymousSep 4, 2026 15:52
Even guys find it gross when a stranger touches them.
35AnonymousSep 4, 2026 15:53
Even NHK employees can't afford a car and have to ride the train? That's rough.
36AnonymousSep 4, 2026 15:53
Japan's a groping superpower — Rena Yamazaki said so herself, quite emphatically.
71AnonymousSep 4, 2026 16:12
Didn't he just click his tongue after getting a look at her face?
90AnonymousSep 4, 2026 16:45
Re: #71 Ah, nobody wanted to say it, but…
72AnonymousSep 4, 2026 16:12
Why not put together a team of a plainclothes policewoman and a couple of plainclothes male officers and send them undercover into the train cars known for heavy groping?
If a groper touches the plainclothes policewoman's butt, she gives a signal, and the two plainclothes officers blending in with the other passengers box him in from front and back and arrest him on the spot.
74AnonymousSep 4, 2026 16:13
Re: #72 They're already running sting operations like that.
75AnonymousSep 4, 2026 16:14
Works out fine for the perp, huh? (said in Tohoku dialect)
82AnonymousSep 4, 2026 16:27
Re: #75 Sorry to disappoint, but I don't ride trains anyway (said in Tohoku dialect)
Background and Points of Debate
Public figures disclosing groping incidents on social media is nothing new these days, and the thread itself brought up Rena Yamazaki’s remarks as an example of similar experiences being shared elsewhere. Part of the backdrop here is that groping cases are notoriously hard to prosecute unless the offender is caught in the act, and reporting to police after the fact often fails to lead to identifying the culprit. Some in this case asked “why not go to the police,” but the original article never actually states whether she filed a report or not — so assuming she just suffered in silence simply because she spoke up on social media would be premature. At the same time, inferring intent from something as subjective as “the movement of his eyes” involves elements that are hard to treat as hard evidence, and that gap between the lived experience and how convincing it reads to outsiders is part of why posts like this tend to split opinion.
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