What I demonstrated with these data is that Japanese fathers do not seem to play a role as perpetrators of sexual abuse as often as American fathers do in the literature. In most DID cases in Japan, their fathers seem to be interested in their child’s treatment, and only in some cases they play a role of physical abusers.
However, this does not necessarily mean that Japanese men are generally less abusive. As I stated before, the incidents of sexual trauma is still occurring frequently outside of the households. Moreover, childhood sexual abuse in Japanese society is possibly grossly underreported.
According to Okuyama’s report (Okuyama, 2004), one in 6.4 Japanese female students have sexual trauma by the graduation from elementary schools, and most of them are done by groupers in commuter trains. Okuyama also stated that those who are sexually traumatized in their childhood are more likely to develop DID, but did not mention any specific number. Asahi Journal (2.16, 2006) reported the incidents of child abuse detected by the National Police Agency in 2005. According to the report, number of those who are sexually abused by their parents under18 years old during the year 2005 was 56, the highest number ever, and the total number of child abuse was 229. The incidents of sexual abuse are broken down to rapes (16), indecent assault (7) and violation of the Child Welfare Law (31) and most of them were done by biological fathers, foster fathers and stepfathers.
However, this number (56) does not seem to reflect the reality. If it is accurate, it is a low number beyond comparison with that of the Western world. In the US, some says that a quarter of women in general have a history of sexual abuse （Finkelhor, 1990）and that should be tens of millions in order.
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