TOKYO, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) — A 44-year-old official from Japan’s Finance Ministry has been arrested for allegedly taking an upskirt photograph of a girl at a prepare station within the suburbs of Tokyo, native media reported Monday.
Yasutaka Yoneta, who’s a member of the ministry’s Policy Research Institute, is suspected of inserting his smartphone below the skirt of a girl in her 20s and taking a photograph with out consent. He has denied the cost, Kyodo News stated, citing the police.
Yoneta photographed the girl’s underwear at round 10 a.m. native time on Oct. 23 whereas driving an escalator at Minami-Osawa Station in Hachioji, based on the police.
The police questioned Yoneta, who additionally serves as a specifically appointed affiliate professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University, over a separate incident on the finish of October, whereby the picture was found on his cellphone, the report stated.