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 for not coming forward were embarrassment and distrust of police, according to the Justice Ministry's survey of 3,500 people aged 16 or older.Of those surveyed, 35, or just 1 percent, said they had been the victims of sex crimes such as molestation and harassment over the past five years. Of these, only five, or 14 percent, reported their cases to investigative…READ FULL ARTICLE
