Overview
- Aichi Prefectural Police arrested Okayama elementary school teacher Kai Mizuki, 27, on suspicion of possessing a video of a girl changing, saying the seventh arrest completes the identification of all members of the teachers’ sharing group.
- Investigators report the SNS group was launched around August last year by former Nagoya teacher Yuji Moriyama, where members posted illicit videos and praised them, with implicated educators spanning five prefectures.
- Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police detained Masahiro Suzuki, 56, on suspicion of entering an apartment complex and filming a woman through a window gap in July, with the suspect exercising his right to remain silent.
- Suzuki had been arrested in October on suspicion of attempted indecent assault after a September 10 intrusion into the same woman’s room, and recovered smartphone data includes videos tied to the July incidents plus images of two other women now under review.
- The Takamatsu District Court convicted former NHK Takamatsu external staffer Jun Tanaka, 23, for trespass and secret filming, imposing a two-and-a-half-year prison term suspended for four years and noting the victim had to relocate.