News JR East confusing passengers with groper PA

[thomas]

Many security cameras are installed, but there are many molesters. Please use the back car if you don't want to be molested.

In Japanese:

防犯カメラは多く設置しておりますが、痴漢は多くいらっしゃいます。痴漢をされたくないお客様は後ろの車両をぜひご利用ください。

That's how a JR East staff member warned passengers on the platform of the Saikyo Line, which connects Tokyo with Saitama Prefecture, standing outside a northbound train about to depart.

But it isn't perfect, and the undeniably worst part of train travel in Japan is the possibility of encountering a chikan, or groper, onboard. Rail operators have tried various countermeasures to attempt to prevent gropings, but the actions of one East Japan Railway Co (JR East) worker have been drawing criticism after a video taken at Shinjuku Station in downtown Tokyo on Aug 30 recently went viral.

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Sounds like a new classification of cars: groping and non-groping.