Sex crimes continue to be significantly underreported in Japan, as many of the victims did not consider their ordeal serious enough to report or did not know how to deal with it, a government survey found Saturday.
Other common reasons victims didn’t come forward were due to embarrassment and a distrust of police, according to the Justice Ministry’s survey of 3,500 people age 16 or older.
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