Sexual discrimination against men are still rising high in Japan as not only are the men banned from specific railway services but also buses.
Although the idea behind the service isn’t entirely original, to Okinawa’s male residence of the town Tomigusuku it’s nonetheless a continuous shocking turn of event in the history of discrimination against equal gender rights.
The new buses are colored in pink and are women only from the passengers to the drivers. Men are only allowed to enter if they’re assisting an elder or happen to be a small boy attending the bus with her mother, otherwise it is prohibited. And this of course comes from the idea of giving women more freedom from men who as of late has had the tendency of being claimed for sexual harassments in the form of gropings in a clingy environment such which apparently is not an very uncommon belief in the other local travel services. Just like that service men has been forced into clinging onto themselves whilst women themselves are treated with comfort and calm travel opportunities in their own “wagons”.
However Okinawa has no rail way network thus making the logical step of introducing such an exclusivity for women using buses. Even though women are now entirely hassle freed from men on a public commuting level in Tomigusuku, the operating company behind this service has promised that men won’t be waiting all too long for their turn to travel to their desired destination as right behind their buses will be arriving shortly.
Of course groups against this newly found trend to give the female gender a special exclusivity which is normally seen in the more religion-based countries, has been formed and it looks like they are in luck as by Japanese law any public bus services cannot deny their services to people no matter the gender, thus making it a discrimination against the male population:
“According to the laws governing bus services on public roads, operators cannot deny people service according to sex. Based on the notion that ‘Most chikan may be men, but most men are not chikan,’ we wish to protest these moves.”
