TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police final week arrested a 40-year-old male nursery college trainer for sexually abusing an elementary college boy.
According to police, Masaaki Kimura is suspected of touching the decrease half of the physique of the boy who was collaborating in a college discipline journey at a lodging facility in Nagano Prefecture in January 2024.
Upon his arrest on suspicion of non-consensual indecent assault, Kimura, who lives in Shinjuku Ward, denied the fees. “I didn’t do it,” he mentioned.
However, the location for weekly tabloid Josei Jishin (Feb. 6) says Kimura is believed to have repeatedly dedicated indecent acts towards boys on the nursery college the place he works and at affiliated after-school care facilities for roughly 4 years.
“Dozens of boys have come forward to report being victimized,” a nationwide newspaper reporter tells the location. “A smartphone seized from Kimura was found to contain approximately 1,200 obscene images, including approximately 360 pieces of child pornography.”
“Part of physical contact”
At the time of the aforementioned incident, Kimura was working as an teacher at an after-school membership. In April 2025, he started working as a nursery college trainer.
A mom whose baby attends the identical licensed nursery college tells the location, “Since my child started using the facility, I’ve heard other parents say things like, ‘They touch them a lot at the facility.’ Honestly, I’m just like, ‘They’ve finally caught him.’”
Another mother or father provides, “My child is still young, and I just started, so I was shocked when I heard the news. To be honest, it’s really hard to even get into these kinds of facilities. There are vacancies at unlicensed facilities, but from our perspective, we’re grateful for this place. Child safety is very important, but the reality is that I wouldn’t be able to continue working if I didn’t use the facilities. On the other hand, now that he’s been caught, it will probably mean that things like this won’t happen again, so it’s a relief.”
In October 2025, a mother or father whose baby attended the nursery college contacted Tokyo Metropolitan Police to report that their son had been sexually abused.
The aforementioned nationwide newspaper reporter says, “When the parent of a child who had previously been victimized by Kimura contacted the nursery school, they were told that it was just ‘part of physical contact.’ Another parent also reported the abuse to the nursery school, only to be told that Kimura denies the allegations.”