Overview
- Takamatsu District Court on November 5 convicted Jun Tanaka, 23, a former external staffer at NHK’s Takamatsu bureau, of trespass and violating Japan’s voyeuristic photography law.
- Prosecutors had sought two years and six months in prison, which the court imposed but suspended for four years.
- Presiding Judge Tsugushi Ikeuchi said the acts aimed to peer into a woman’s private life and caused severe fear and disgust, noting the victim was forced to relocate.
- The court cited a concluded settlement and the mother’s promise to supervise the defendant as reasons to suspend incarceration.
- In court, Tanaka admitted his conduct by stating that his desire overcame him; no appeal was reported at the time of sentencing.