Just saw a Japanese man cut a foreign woman across the face at Kyoto Station

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1. Just saw a Japanese man cut a foreign woman across the face at Kyoto Station

   I was rushing to get on my train, and up ahead of me I witnessed an older Japanese man shoulder check this older European woman who was traveling with her husband. She screamed out in pain. My first reaction was, she may have over reacted. That was until I saw a gash form across her left cheek bone. I said out loud, “That man just cut that woman!” The lady turned with her husband and took chase of the perpetrator. As I looked back into the crowd, he had totally disappeared from my sight, seemingly hiding in the throngs of people.

   I was running a bit late and continued on to make my train as they seemed to be taking action, but now I am wondering if I also should have helped them. From reading on this sub and other Japan Travel subs, I have gathered that finding this fellow and trying to get some authority to help is almost impossible.

   I feel like instinctively, if that was my wife, I would have chased that mofo down and beat the shyte out of him, regardless of the consequences against me.

   What should I have done in this situation? What do you think the outcome is going to be for the European woman and her husband?

2. The infamous salary ojisan shoulder check — they fade into the distance like ninjas

3. I’m sorry… you left?

   You are a witness to a violent crime.

   What you should have done was stay and talk to the police.

   What you need to do now is go back to Kyoto and talk to the police.

   >I have gathered that finding this fellow and trying to get some authority to help is almost impossible.

   Why would you think that? There is surveillance video all over Kyoto station. There is a 100% chance that the perpetrator is on video entering the station, getting on and off a train, etc.

   However, the exact strike on the women’s face may or may not being video which is why it is so important that the police talk to witnesses to corroborate that attack and everything else that happened.

   The police are not likely to investigate a petty crime, but a violent crime at a major train station, they will absolutely investigate and prosecute.

4. Have been living here for over a decade and have experienced many crazy things but when it comes to the police it is never 100% that they will do anything to help a foreigner unless enough of a fuss is made to the point that they would have to do so to save face (media etc.) 

   I tried to help a pregnant filipino lady that was kicked in the stomach once, there were cameras in the area, I was a witness, went to koban with her to translate, begged the cops to actually do their job at least for unborn child’s sake but they just got annoyed and told me to leave without making a report and then told the lady after that she could do nothing unless she paid lots of money (I knew theyd be scum so asked for her line) had a friend get hit by a car with witnesses too and the cops just tried to get him to let it all go even though he was injured. Crime is low in Japan but also artificially low due to cops not wanting to do anything sometimes. Not always the case but it us def a thing. 

   Ive been choked right in front of police, have had proof of robbery and serial numbers of stolen property, etc. cops did nothing. 

   It sucks but maybe you could have done something as witness but maybe it wouldve been just a waste of time ☹️

5. I’m honestly getting worried about this kind of shit. I’m traveling with my Aunty in Nov and I’m terrified something like this could happen to her. She is such a nice women it would break my heart of something like that happened to her.

6. About 14 rates ago I saw an attempted kidnapping on the train in Tokyo.

   That was really fucked up.

7. They have cameras everywhere to check situations like this.. a man viciously knocked over a girl checking her cell phone and the police later caught him on his way home ..

8. 国内ニュースでどこもやってないようだが？
   There’s no such news found in any media of Japan. ???

9. (translate by ChatGPT)

   I saw a news report about a man carrying a knife in Kyoto Prefecture. I’m not sure if it’s the same person you saw.

   [Breaking News] Around 9:10 PM today, a man armed with a knife made incomprehensible statements before leaving a residence in Ogurisu Kosaka-cho, Fushimi Ward. Passersby are advised to be cautious, and residents are urged to check their locks and refrain from going out. If you see any suspicious individuals, please report to the police.

   Source:https://x.com/geiger_warning/status/1796527226802118816

10. Omg so scary, i just arrived to kyoto in the morning with my family

11. Fake