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On the evening of the 17th at Hankyu Tsukaguchi Station in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, a 28-year-old female office worker riding an up escalator was groped on the buttocks by a man in his 60s who approached from behind. When the woman chased after him, the man reportedly said, “Please let this settle it,” handed her 2,000 yen in cash, and walked away. Amagasaki Kita Police Station is investigating the case as non-consensual indecent assault. On 5ch, opinions split over how to interpret the 2,000 yen he handed over, and over whether accepting cash on the spot counts as reaching a settlement.
September 17, 2026, 10:47 PM
At around 6:30 p.m. on the 17th, inside Hankyu Railway’s Tsukaguchi Station on Tsukaguchi Honmachi 1-chome in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, a 28-year-old female office worker riding an up escalator had her buttocks touched once by a man in his 60s as he passed her from behind. Hyogo Prefectural Police’s Amagasaki Kita Station is investigating it as a case of non-consensual indecent assault.
According to the police station, when the woman chased the man outside the station, he said, “Please let this make up for it,” handed her 2,000 yen in cash, and left the scene.
Source: kobe-np.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Is it in police custody, or did the victim just end up keeping it for now?
Probably gave it back, right?
It doesn't actually say she accepted it though…
Shoving money at her and running off isn't a settlement
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By 'wife' he means his son's wife, you perverted old geezer
If they legalized it, people would start groping each other all over town
Though it'd be fun if everyone just wore a price tag as their 'OK' sign
Even Masahiko Kusakari did it every single episode in the opening of that detective drama
In our house, small cash transactions usually go through PaiPai.
A guy paying 2,000 yen for one touch is a solid customer
Household sexual harassment has basically become routine for us — I do it absentmindedly. Makes me wonder, once I'm senile, will I turn into a groping old man?
By the time I'm old, will I have gotten it out of my system and lost interest?
Or will it just be such a habit that I end up groping anyone regardless of who they are?
Kind of worried about it already lol
Nice, a self-checkout
That he appraised this woman's butt
at exactly '2,000 yen'
If he'd just said 'she looked like a beautiful Siri so I couldn't help myself,' he might've walked free (pun: 'kirei na shiri' = beautiful butt, sounds like 'Siri')
>groped her butt once as he passed by
That's not per minute, that's per second
Background and Key Points of the Debate
This case appears to have been filed as “non-consensual indecent assault,” the name given to the former charge of “forcible indecent assault” following Japan’s 2023 penal code reform. That reform clarified that the crime hinges not just on whether violence or intimidation occurred, but on the simple fact that the victim did not consent. What split opinion on the thread was whether the man’s handing over cash counted as a “settlement.” In reality, a settlement requires agreement from both parties — shoving money into someone’s hand and fleeing immediately after the assault doesn’t qualify as a legal settlement, and it carries no power to halt a police investigation. What ultimately became of the 2,000 yen isn’t addressed in the original article, so the thread’s speculation on that point remains just that — speculation.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Speed+) thread “[Butt] Man gropes woman’s butt on station escalator, says “let this make up for it,” hands over 2,000 yen and flees — Amagasaki.”
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