Japan's Women-only carriages being used as make-up rooms

Groping of female commuters had become such a nationwide problem late in the last century that railroad companies decided they had to do something to stop it. Rather than alleviate the horrendous crowding of cars that made carriages breeding grounds for molestation, however, the solution was seen as providing sections that only women commuters could use.

"Women start applying make-up here, there and everywhere in the carriage as though they're sitting in front of the mirror of their dressing board at home! Office ladies are slathering on foundation and you can see their office face appearing right before your own eyes. I bet you'd never see this happening in a carriage where there were men around," Shukan Post rants.