Overview
- Tokyo’s education board announced on Dec. 24 that four teachers were removed through dismissal or dismissal-equivalent actions for voyeurism, indecent acts, selling obscene videos, and sexual touching involving students.
- A 29-year-old municipal junior high teacher was convicted for secretly filming a male graduate student between August 2023 and October 2024 and received a two-year prison term suspended for four years, leading to loss of position.
- A 29-year-old junior high teacher in the Tama region was dismissed for indecent acts with a former female student after the student reported the conduct to the board’s third‑party consultation desk.
- Two additional cases resulted in dismissals: a 29-year-old elementary teacher who sold obscene videos and a 38-year-old chief teacher who put his hand into a female elementary student’s underwear.
- Police actions expanded this week, with Kanagawa officers investigating four men including a lawyer detained in Yokohama for an alleged escalator upskirt attempt, and with Kagoshima and Fukuoka issuing safety alerts after separate harassment incidents on trains and streets.