Ways not to lock your bike

Edit: Oh, and if you know a woman who's travelled in or lived in Japan on her own, why don't you ask her how idyllic it was? Japan is, in it's own special way, very repressed and fucked up wrt to gender. Western women get all that plus the assumption that they are whores.

My fiancé is Japanese and she has never complained about Japan as a society. In fact she hates the crime in Britain and has had her bike stolen as well as her Brooks saddle within the last year and can't understand why we live like this. I've never heard her tell a story about the dangers of being a woman Japan, but I know that they have women only subway cars to prevent crime in the big cities. I'm not completely oblivious to the fact that crime goes on anywhere.

My fiancé comes from an average Japanese family (Father and brother both work as civil servants, mother is home maker). She lived on her own in Tokyo for three years, her family were all the way up in Hokkaido. I know enough to make my own assumptions.

The topic of this thread is about locking bikes (or examples of how not to). You can get away without much security on your bike in Japan. Case closed.