A police officer from Kagawa Prefecture has been arrested for using his smartphone to photograph up the skirt of a female, disguising the camera underneath a legging that he was wearing so as not to contaminate a crime scene.
Mitsuru Higashiyama (35) was arrested in January and on February 28th it was announced that he was suspended for three months. He has also voluntarily resigned from his post.
Higashiyama had apparently used the same contraption at four places between February 2013 and January this year on five separate women.
"It was to satisfy my sexual appetites," he has ...
A 29-year-old public servant in Tokyo's Adachi ward was arrested on February 17th for attempting to kidnap a young girl.
Kentaro Makino previously went into the grounds of an Edogawa ward condo in July last year. He waited there for kids coming home from school. Soon enough a 10-year-old elementary school student arrived, who he threatened with a knife and told her he'd bring her home again as long as she kept quiet. He then put handcuffs on her and put her into a large boston bag.
However, the girl put up a fight and screamed her lungs out, so a frightened Makino dropped his spare ...
Here's a cautionary tale just after Valentine's Day to remind us how wrong things can go.
A 48-year-old life insurance employee was arrested on February 13th by police in Shakujii in Nerima in Tokyo. Yokohama resident Keisuke Munakata is accused of sending threatening notes to a girl he met at a wedding party in 2013.
Munakata and the 27-year-old girl from Nerima dated last year. But when things went wrong, Munakata sent her a note saying "Keep your eyes out. Something might happen to you." This intimidation apparently continued from from last December to January.
The pair met at a ...
A trip to the dentist can often be a nerve-wracking thing, especially if your pearlies need some painful work done.
But this pervy dentist in Ichinomiya City in Mie Prefecture did little to allay his patient's fears. Rather, apparently he was just intent on having a good time for himself.
The 53-year-old took a charm to the twentysomething woman who came to his hospital to get her teeth fixed.
He told a dubious story that "massaging your chest will help the alignment of your jaw" and promptly took her to side-room in his clinic. Whether she was naive or just scared, we don't ...
If you're a AKB48 fan, you are probably a vulnerable individual with money to burn and an appetite for over-priced merchandise.
And if you know someone like that or come into contact with them -- be warned. They may just steal your money.
As we know, otaku fans idol groups are famously willing to put themselves into serious debt in order to purchase thousands of CDs.
But this is taking things to almost mafia levels.
Kyoto police are now set to prosecute six men, all aged 20, who stole information from other people's credit cards so that they could buy nearly 500 CDs by the group ...
Another day, another fetish-related crime.
We only just recently blogged about the man who stole everything from satchels to curtains from an elementary school, and now comes this news -- first shared on Tokyo Reporter -- of a thief whose interests was exclusively the shoes of hostesses.
Well, anything related to hostesses we can understand; these ladies inspire a thousand fetishes.
On Monday Tokyo Metropolitan Police announced that they had arrested a man for stealing shoes from hostesses.
Sho Sato (28) took high-heeled shoes from clubs in Tokyo, Kanagawa and Saitama.
The ...
A 53-year-old unemployed man has been arrested and charged with sneaking into an elementary school in Takaoka City in Toyama Prefecture, and stealing a large quantity of school satchels and other examples of school property.
He was first arrested and charged with stealing the satchel of a 7-year-old student on December 7th, but after that the police raided his home and found some 140 other items, such as musical instruments and bicycles.
The police chief said that the man had been using the same method to sneak into the school since 11 years ago and had been stealing kids' things, and ...
Japanese police have bagged the latest major criminal in the land. An 82-year-old panties thief will meet justice at last after cops in Hyogo Prefecture arrested Tsuyoshi Matsusue on Sunday.
The octogenarian had been sighted stealing a 59-year-old woman's pair of underwear from her garden, says Tokyo Reporter. The sprightly pensioner made off with his prize on Sunday morning but the victim's husband gave chase for 200 meters.
Unfortunately, his physique was not as strong as his erotic energies, and the 62-year-old husband managed to catch up with the panties thief.
When questioned by ...
Teachers are of course charged with looking after the future generation. But all teachers are human. Perhaps some a little too human.
Previously a model employee, one 29-year-old maths teacher in Toyama Prefecture got himself into some trouble recently when he was particularly imprudent with his choice of lady on a deaikei ("encounters"!) dating site. Masato Terao groomed a girl that he thought was a junior high schooler into having a liaison with him in a hotel for the princely sum of ¥30,000.
They then met in a hotel in Toyama City to conduct the business transaction.
It turned ...
Ryoma Sakamoto was a famous figure the era when Japan shifted from a feudal nation to a modern one. He is one of the most popular samurais in Japanese history.
But it's also the name of a 30-year-old unemployed guy in Ome City, north Tokyo.
This Ryoma Sakamoto was informed by his girlfriend that she wanted to break up with him and the "samurai" was mighty pissed off. So pissed off he set about a plan of action, as any hero would.
His plan was revenge. And it involved home-made porn. Yes, it was, as it is known, "revenge porn."
He began to threaten his thirtysomething girlfriend who he ...
