Overview
- The Tokyo Metropolitan Police arrested 26-year-old teacher Ryosuke Kimura on Wednesday on suspicion of residence trespass and attempted theft for entering a 70s man’s home with two former students on February 2, 2026.
- Police say the group entered through an unlocked window, searched the interior and left without taking anything after hearing noises in an inner room.
- Investigators allege Kimura advised students which items to take—telling them, for example, that a Buddhist altar bell could fetch a high price—and showed them how to list goods on the Mercari app.
- Authorities have already arrested six male students from the same high school in a series of Oshima Town burglaries from April 2025 to February 2026, and police will send documents to prosecutors to seek charges for the two participants in the Feb. 2 incident.
- Kimura has partly denied entering the house interior and said he went along 'as a dare,' his arrest follows an ongoing probe and possible school and criminal proceedings that remain under way.