Understanding this genre requires distinguishing between fiction and reality in Japanese adult media.
The phenomenon also reveals a dark synergy with Japan’s honne (true feelings) and tatemae (public facade) culture. The tatemae of the morning commute is that it is merely crowded but functional. To scream would shatter this collective facade. The chikan exploits this national aversion to interpersonal confrontation. Witnesses, trapped in the same social script, often look away, not out of malice, but out of a desperate desire to maintain their own psychological equilibrium. They become silent accomplices, not through action, but through inaction. chikan shihai
Without a specific context or field (like a title, a concept in philosophy, a term in a specific hobby, etc.), it's challenging to provide a precise explanation. To scream would shatter this collective facade
(痴漢支配)