Female commuters in Japan have had access to women-only carriages on trains for almost 20 years, but the problem of molesters on rush-hour trains persists.

After all, women-only carriages might seem like a good idea, but they’re not a solution to the problem — all they do is hide away potential victims, while not tackling the behaviour of perpertrators.

Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn proposed women-only carriages on trains when he was running for leadership of the party, but the idea proved unpopular.

Nicky Morgan, then Conservative women’s minister, said: “It seems to me not to tackle the issue, which is that women should feel safe and be free from harassment…it seems to say ‘let’s segregate people’ rather than tackling the issue.”

A debate also raged in Germany after the country introduced women-only carriages in 2016.

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