A paper on decisions not to report sexual assault
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/proceedings/27/dussich.pdf
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It is likely that the decisions not to report rape in Japan are similar to
conditions also identified in other countries but in different degrees. In pre-study
interviews with Japanese rape counsellors, college students (male and female),
housewives, and social scientists it was learned that the cultural pressures to
defer to family, friends, acquaintances, neighbours, supervisors, and persons of
greater status, males and older persons, are stronger than in most Western
cultures and may significantly influence rape reporting and non reporting. It is
interesting that the book written about rape and its myths by members of the
Tokyo Rape Crisis Centre (1990) avoids mention of reporting phenomena
entirely. The pressure for women to act with deference and altruism (Koss 1990)
weakens the likelihood of victims reporting. In other cultures the majority of
rapes are perpetrated by acquaintances: thus, it is reasonable to assume that a
large number of unreported acquaintance rapes also exist in Japan. The majority
are date rapes, rapes by colleagues, supervisors, family and friends. Also
included should be marital rapes and child sexual abuses; however, in Japan
these types of victimisations have not received much recognition as yet
(Morosawa 1991).
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