Overview

• Investigators found more than ten hidden cameras at the arrested teacher’s previous prefectural high school, with similar concealment methods identified at his current workplace.
• Devices were reportedly wired into school infrastructure and hidden in ceilings and other blind spots, indicating deliberate efforts to evade detection.
• The Tochigi Prefectural Board of Education conducted emergency inspections at 79 prefectural middle, high, and special-needs schools from August 18–22.
• In a demonstration to the press, staff worked in pairs to check girls’ changing rooms, classrooms, toilets, the pool and gym, focusing on areas such as under slatted floors, lockers, ceiling inspection panels, projectors, and curtain rails.
• Prefectural officials plan an emergency principals’ meeting in Utsunomiya on August 27 to share crisis awareness and reinforce measures to prevent a recurrence, while police continue their investigation.