Overview

• Osaka District Court sentenced former kindergarten employee Hiroki Kamata, 38, to three years in prison with a five‑year suspension and a ¥700,000 fine for filming and selling videos of naked boys.
• The court found he covertly recorded three under‑18 boys in a Kagawa lodging facility changing room between February and December 2024 and monetized the recordings.
• Judge Akio Chikamichi cited the planned nature of the offense and the risk of broad dissemination, while noting the defendant’s admission and stated remorse in weighing the sentence.
• Aichi Prefectural Police arrested a 34‑year‑old Tokyo elementary school teacher on suspicion of possessing child‑pornography data at home, and the suspect acknowledged the allegation, saying, “That’s correct.”
• The arrest is the sixth linked to a group of roughly fewer than 10 educators suspected of sharing voyeuristic images via SNS, with about 70 files identified in chat logs through analysis of seized smartphones and storage media.