Overview
- The Utsunomiya Summary Court issued a ¥500,000 summary fine to a prosecutors office staffer in his 60s, who was also suspended for three months and resigned the same day as officials apologized.
- Prosecutors said he secretly recorded a victim on July 31 in a Tochigi hotel room, the victim called 110, he admitted the act and the case was referred to prosecutors in October.
- Shizuoka Prefectural Police arrested Senior Constable Yasunaga Munefumi, 36, on Friday evening on suspicion of filming under a teenage woman's skirt on an up escalator at JR Fujieda Station, and he acknowledged the allegation.
- Bystanders alerted station staff who turned the suspect over to police for an on-the-spot arrest, and investigators are checking for possible additional offenses after confirming he was off duty.
- Shizuoka police said six officers have been arrested this year, the highest tally in a decade, as leadership expressed regret and vowed a strict response.