Beware of "bumping uncles" who deliberately ram into people at crowded stations in Japan

Well, maybe something close to that does apply.

I don’t know what the particular man’s problem was that Mark wrote about, but “bumping uncles” seem to typically target women. In a patriarchal country where women carry knitting needles and such for protection from subway gropers, I find it easy to imagine that bumping uncles sometimes commit what amounts to sexual assault.

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