When Japanese women are physically or sexually abused by their partners, they tend to keep quiet and refrain from reporting the violence to the police.
But, in Europe, women who go through the same demeaning experience are more inclined to let the authorities know, according to a survey compiled by professors at Ryukoku University in Kyoto.
Out of 2,448 randomly picked women between the ages of 18 and 75 who were contacted between last October and December in the Kinki region, 741 agreed to take part in face-to-face interviews with female researchers.