In Japan
The prank is pervasive in Japan. There are anime glorifying this act (such as Naruto, where it is used as the basis of a martial arts move known as the Thousand Years of Pain introduced in episode 4 of the first season). In Japan, there is even a TV gameshow where a celebrity routinely kanchÅs random people.
In February 2006, Nanmon Kaiketsu ("Solving Difficult Problems"), an NHK TV show about social problems, speculated that the long-term leniency toward Kancho is an indirect cause of the rampant train gropings across Japan.
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