Misguided “Genderless Toilets” Create Crime…The Most Dangerous Japanese Toilets in the World

If a crime is committed in a “genderless restroom,” it is the responsibility of the…

Gender-less toilets” have become a topic of conversation in public restrooms in Shibuya Ward and Tokyu Kabukicho Tower. Both of these toilets have a single entrance and a row of private rooms inside.

These toilets are like a crime scene. To begin with, Japanese toilets are not built according to global standards. I would even go so far as to call them the most dangerous toilets in the world.

Mr. Nobuo Komiya, a criminologist, is indignant about this.

Most public restrooms in Japan are of the type “with one entrance in the center, a men’s restroom and a women’s restroom on either side, and a multipurpose restroom in the center. This means that if someone follows you from behind, neither you nor the people around you are likely to feel uncomfortable, and you will be pulled straight into a private room.

In other countries, it is common practice to separate the entrances to men’s and women’s restrooms.

According to the “Crime Victimization Survey” conducted by the Ministry of Justice, sexual assaults occur seven times more often than the number of incidents identified by the police. Since the survey covers those 16 years of age and older, the figure would be 20 to 30 times higher if children younger than that are included. As toilets are said to be hotbeds of crime, most sexual assaults may be occurring in toilets. We must first do something about this current situation.”

In other words, “genderless toilets,” in which both men and women enter through the same entrance, are a no-brainer.

Last month, the World Economic Forum released its “Gender Gap Index,” which evaluates the current status of the gender gap based on data from various countries. According to the index, Japan ranked 125th out of 146 countries. This is a further decline from last year’s ranking of 116th. Japan lacks a perspective that puts itself in women’s shoes. This is why gender-less toilets are created with a “mistaken” viewpoint.

According to Mr. Komiya, in order to prevent crime in other countries, urban development and building design are basically based on the “Opportunity Theory of Crime. Opportunism” is a method of creating places where crime is less likely to occur by incorporating innovations that encourage criminals to give up on crime. From the perspective of criminal opportunity theory, gender-restricted restrooms, such as those being discussed today, are not possible.

In the U.K., it is mandatory to have separate toilets for men and women.

In Japan, “Everybody’s Restroom” was established to accommodate those who need assistance, those who use a colostomy, and those who bring their children with them. Even if a person is physically handicapped, he or she still has a gender, so we basically have four types of restrooms: a men’s restroom, a women’s restroom, a men’s restroom, and a women’s restroom.

However, this makes it difficult for transgender people, who are not comfortable using the restroom of the gender they were assigned at birth, to use the restroom.

If this is the case, we should build “anyone’s restrooms” in addition to men’s and women’s restrooms. We can increase the number of such toilets in response to social demand.

But there are already independent “anyone’s restrooms.

Yes, there are. That would be a genderless restroom. Gender-less toilets,” he said. Gender-less toilets, etc. There are people in every country who think it’s cool to create a cutting-edge atmosphere by calling it a genderless restroom.