http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/ ... 1000c.htmlFUKUOKA -- A suburban Tokyo government official has been arrested for filming up the skirt of a 4-year-old girl at a packed festival here, police said.
Akinori Yamada, 30, of Machida in suburban Tokyo, was arrested for breaking a Fukuoka Prefectural Government public nuisance ordinance by allegedly making a sex object of the pre-school girl.
Police said Yamada and the little girl he targeted were part of a huge crowd surrounding one of the floats used in the Hakata Dontoku Minato Matsuri festival, the biggest event in the country over Golden Week, attracting millions of visitors.
Yamada sneaked up behind the little girl and thrust a bag containing a hidden camera between her legs, then started filming up her skirt.
The little girl's father noticed what the government official was doing and grabbed him, holding Yamada until police officers arrived on the scene and arrested him. (Mainichi Shimbun, May 3, 2004)
YOKOHAMA -- An elite career-track Foreign Ministry bureaucrat was arrested Thursday for making junior high school girls watch him perform indecent acts in return for money, police said.
The diplomat, Toshiyuki Sato, a head secretary in the ministry's Deputy Chief of Protocol office, has reportedly admitted that he also molested one of the girls.
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Child prostitution through mobile phone matchmaking services has become a major problem in Japanese society in recent years.
Also on Thursday, a 28-year-old Maritime Self-Defense Force officer was arrested for hiring a 13-year-old prostitute in Hiroshima last year, while a 29-year-old former Tokyo police officer was handed a suspended sentence for a similar offense. (Compiled from Mainichi and wire stories, Feb. 21, 2002)
What one of them had to say after being busted:
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/waiwai/0310/1003chikan.htmlToshiyuki Sato - "Putting a 13 yr old girl into bed feels good"
All I can really say is that it's hardly a surprise that Japanese women are the most likely of all Asian women to marry outside of their ethnicity. Japanese men really do suck.Gross groupies gather
to gab about gal-groping
By Masuo Kamiyama
Contributing Writer
October 3, 2003
Shigeru Oohori (a pseudonym) is a 35-year-old "elite salaryman" at a major corporation and loving father of a 10-year-old daughter. He's also a dedicated chikan (groper) who gets his thrills running his hands over the bodies of young women on commuter trains.
Five years ago, Oohori was posting messages on an Internet bulletin board set up for aficionados of train groping. (Example: "Today, I got my hands on a girl with a big ass...") and proposed that his fellow correspondents get together for drinks.
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Oohori was quite impressed to see that many of the participants at the gathering were of high social standing.
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This initial encounter led to the formal establishment of the Chikan Tomo-no-Kai (The Gropers' Brotherhood), whose membership currently numbers 50 nationwide, and of which Oohori serves as chairman.
While the members range from students to septuagenarians, the largest age segment is composed of salaried wage earners in their 30s, an overwhelming number of whom are married.