Stop it! Japan anti-groper app becomes smash hit

TOKYO: A Tokyo police smartphone app to scare off molesters has become a smash hit in Japan, where women have long run the gauntlet of groping on packed rush-hour trains. 

Victims of groping can activate the Digi Police app, which either blasts out a voice shouting “stop it” at top volume, or produces a full-screen SOS message – which victims can show other passengers – reading: “There is a molester. Please help.”