Overview
- Masanaga Kageyama was arrested at Paris Charles de Gaulle after Air France cabin crew reported he was viewing child sexual images during a Tokyo–Santiago flight.
- The Bobigny court imposed an 18‑month suspended prison term and a €5,000 fine, a 10‑year bar on working with minors, a 10‑year ban from France, and registration in the FIJAIS offenders file.
- Investigators seized his devices and uncovered more than 1,600 explicit files, with forensic analysis concluding several depicted real minors.
- Kageyama told the court the files were AI‑generated as an art project and said he did not know this was illegal in France, a defense the judges rejected.
- The Japan Football Association terminated his contract and issued an apology, and he remains free pending return to Japan, where French sanctions do not automatically apply.