Rainy season has officially begun in Tokyo. Last year’s season was protracted and desultory, stretching on until July. We hope that won’t be the case this year, though the measures against the coronavirus will mean that many places are anyway closed and typical summer events won’t happen.
When the rains started last week, they brought with them winds.
All this spelled trouble for commuters, struggling to get to work against the elements. And for schoolgirls, it was especially difficult conditions to walk around in.
Even more so in if you have a voyeur on your trail. Schoolgirls must deal with tosatsu (secret filming) and panchira (upskirting) fetishists, who prowl the streets looking for new additions to their collections.
The windy weather that ushered in this year’s rainy season was a particular problem, as these schoolgirls found in Yokohama.
They were trailed by an unknown male admirer, who photographed their attempts to keep their skirts down in the gale. Savvy young ladies that they are, they were largely successful and the frustrated voyeur was unable to snap a decent shot of any panchira despite his obvious tenacity. But for some people, this delicate borderline between glimpsing and not glimpsing the Holy Grail is precisely where the allure lies…
