TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested the supervisor of store for clothes chain Uniqlo for allegedly taking illicit photographs of feminine clients earlier this 12 months, studies the Tokyo Shimbun (Oct. 31).
Between July 28 and August 13, Kohei Takahashi, 35, is alleged to have used a smartphone to take tosatsu (voyeur) movies of the breasts and underwear of eight girls, together with a 15-year-old woman, within the becoming rooms of the shop within the Otsuka space of Toshima Ward.
Upon his arrest for violating the Law Banning the Taking of Sexually Explicit Photographs, Takahashi stated, “I could not suppress my desire to see their underwear.”
According to police, Takahashi started taking the photographs in June. In finishing up the crimes, the suspect waited till he had guided the feminine targets into becoming rooms and different workers had left the realm.
To take the photographs, he pointed the digicam of smartphone beneath the curtains for 2 to a few seconds after the purchasers had dropped their underwear and different gadgets right into a basket.
The incident emerged after Takahashi was arrested in August for taking photos up the skirts of highschool women on the JR Yamanote Line. An examination of his smartphone revealed roughly 50 movies of ladies that had been doubtless taken in shops and elsewhere in July and August.
A consultant of Uniqlo stated in a press release, “”We deeply apologize to the sufferer and her household for the good inconvenience and ache we have now induced. We take this violation of our clients’ belief very severely and can do all the pieces we are able to to forestall it from occurring once more.”