What I mean is that in the hectic ratrace that is Tokyo, there is a greater population density, a larger number of salarymen, and a widespread culture of turning up to work at 7am then hanging with the boss until gone midnight nearly every night of the week.

As far west as you are using as an example, the population density is lower, and while Japanese companies retain that employee loyalty, I don't believe they leverage it quite so often to force their employees to go out on the lash every night. Thus more salarymen are more likely to be using the train during two distinct rush hours, whereas Tokyo's salarymen are more likely to be getting home anytime between 6pm and 1am, so are spread out more across seven hours rather than all using the train during one or two in the evening.

Therefore it makes more sense that they have ladies' cars both morning and evening, and Tokyo's trains have only morning ladies' cars :)

I'm not saying you were wrong to do so. I'm saying people responding to the OP's question could do with reading the OP's question rather than just reacting to the thread's title.

I've heard Japanese men can be scared of gaijin women -- or gaijin in general.
So, as far as that will take you, that means less Japanese men kawaii'ing all over you.

I can understand their feelings!

We had a store in a Sydney suburb where the women would go out at night and the men would stay home!

Something about you saying "we" shouldn't talk about salarymen.

I think, at least for I, living in Japan stereotypes your "average" Japanese man in the street or train as a "salaryman", or is that just me?

Having said that, we did have a weirdo, and I mean this guy was weird and BIG, full Japanese, lived down the road, and his girl used to feed the feral cats nightly while he prowled the back laneways.

So is it alright as a tourist to walk around in central Tokyo for example, walking around downtown at decent hours (11am - 7pm or so) without getting mollested or something similar? Is there only a threat if you get drunk in the middle of the night in bars, or should you keep your eyes open 24/7?

I'd like to study some in japan for a couple of weeks this summer but I have no idea what it really is like over there, am I safe as long as I stay out of the shadier areas or are there shady people everywhere? I'm a little blonde so I get a bit worried, don't know wether I can stay there on my own or not.

I got the impression that Japan is probably one of the safest countries to go travelling alone. I am thinking about it more that I'm planning on going on holiday to Japan by myself though. Obviously some things are common sense - staying away from dodgy areas, not getting crazy drunk, staying with crowds etc. But to what extent (as a girl) do you need to be cautious? There are places where going anywhere as a foreigner on your own at any time is inviting trouble, and then there are places where a girl can walk on her own in the middle of the night and not get hassled at all.

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心配しなくても狙われないから安心しろ、馬鹿馬鹿しい 。
自惚れるなよ。朝から気分悪くなった・・・

Yes, I wouldn't worry about it or take it to heart.

pics or didn't happen

the dangerous japanese men are the yakuza, I guess, but at least they don't hide who they are so not really that dangerous overall

I think the Yakuza might be slightly less interested in looking up a girls skirt on the train with a mobile phone. You'll find the kind of men who do this have lower identity, live alone in apartments with no social life, and have very little sense of "power". I.e; middle aged, unmarried, office workers.

There are really ladies only trains in Tokyo? Wow, there must be a big problem with perverts there.

irrelevant, and you're triple posting....-.-

I'm grazing the thread.

Anyway, when someone asks for a video of something or it doesn't exist... WTF? They're an idiot.

pics of her being a mad beautiful white girl; simple enough. cock pix, hey, I don't swing that way, but I can oblige for the sake of spite if you're really interested.

And I know the yakuza aren't going to be putting mirrors on their shoes, that was my point.

double post

Even if there was something unbelievable in what she said, it's not like it's relevant to the subject.

I don't see why being cute and baby faced needs to be filmed or photographed. It's hardly uncommon to look that way, and even if it was, it doesn't matter.

You are safer in Japan.
 

Those interest to the western world has gradually gotten lower and lower after peaked around 60's. Young generation there has much less interest to the outside world including foreign women fortunately for you. This is apparent if you just glance girlie magazines on bookstore or newsstand. You see very few foreign faces nowadays.

Even if you are cute as you said, you have to speak Japanese fluently and show it off that you are available for them just to approach you. Otherwise they won't bother getting into a complicated situation. They are shy and reserved people.

I am not saying that there are no crazy guys there. But a chance of encountering them is much much lower in any circumstance than in any other country.

In recent years, crime committed by foreigners has become an issue in this otherwise safe country. So behave yourself and leave a good impression to them. I know you will get good impression from Japan.

Foreigners of Japan increased, and crimes increased.

I still think that it is the safest country in the world.


YouTube - 外国人が見た日本　忘れ物が届く国

Koreans say that expression 'from the morning' a lot, as in 'I started off the day with a [good/bad happening]'

I was singing a song in ranchat.com and several people said "thanks for the good song from the morning." (아침부터 좋은 노래 감사합니다) Just "from" the morning in English doesn't have the exact feeling of the Korea and Japanese. In America I heard somebody say "I started my day with [somebody saying f word making me in a bad mood]"

i can just said my opinion...but at least i think it will be almost the same like most posts already added...
when i was in japan everybody was just so kind to me...i ha d lusk on people i´ve met...in my school, seems like every guy who see me, started to scream "bijin"(beauty), ask for my name, where i´´m from etc. ...but they were so nice and kind...not like the strangers...and i think if they were alone, with no other guys, they just didn´t say to me nothing...even when i went in the streets it happend to me a lots of time, that someone started to flirt with me and invited to some bars... even when i had a speech to all school...some boys scream out something like "Bijin, totemo kirei" etc...but still you are for them just an attraction...they actually don´t have any serios relation to you...they know you will gone one day and see in that a chance to flirt...and thats all...i think

i think japan is safest country...and maybe that´s true...:ywave:

This thread has obvious Japanese bashing in it. It should be closed.

"Thanks for playing"

Japan -> so ridiculously safe it's weird, honestly

If you're an average Japanese male and even the average gaijin male, in an average neighborhood, probably so.

However, if you add the following factors, the probabilities can sky-rocket upward:

1. You are a woman - Japanese or otherwise - who returns home late at night, either from work or from drinking.
2. You're a foreign woman that stands out physically - eg. blonde hair, tall, and/or attractive.
3. You drink alcohol at night.
4. You live in a ground floor residence.
5. You live in one of the 'crime hot spots' like shown in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police sites: http://www.keishicho.metro.tokyo.jp/...hi/yoku_av.htm


Chances are if you match two or more of the above criteria, you have some fucked up stories to tell.

That's fair enough . . . but those criteria surely apply to anywhere? I mean it doesn't matter if I'm in America, Japan, South Africa or India . . . if I was a hot, blonde foriegner that was drunk and alone in a notorious crime spot I think it's only logical that I'd attract some attention. You get criminals anywhere, so anyone in those stated criteria is putting themselves at risk. It's commonsense.

I think the original post was something like 'are Japanese men in particular dangerous', or at least that's the vibe I get without rereading a bunch of posts years old . . . If that's the case then I don't think your criteria or a bunch of other people's anecdotes count for much. Japan has one of the lowest crime rates that I know - its rates for violent crimes are four times lower of that in the UK (last time I checked). If you ask me that simply proves one fact: crimes still happen, but far less than they do elsewhere. Does that make Japanese men "dangerous" as the thread asks? No. It makes people as a whole dangerous, with some simply more or less so than others.

Final comment: take precautions, use commonsense, stay sharp, and just act as you would in any other country in regards to avoiding crimes.

Japanese male is considerably a hazard, and take care.