TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested the supervisor of store for clothes chain Uniqlo for allegedly taking illicit pictures of feminine prospects 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 ladies, 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 Legislation Banning the Taking of Sexually Express Pictures, Takahashi mentioned, “I couldn’t suppress my want to see their underwear.”
In response to police, Takahashi started taking the pictures 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 pictures, he pointed the digital camera of smartphone underneath the curtains for 2 to a few seconds after the shoppers had dropped their underwear and different objects 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 girls that had been possible taken in shops and elsewhere in July and August.
A consultant of Uniqlo mentioned in an announcement, “”We deeply apologize to the sufferer and her household for the nice inconvenience and ache now we have precipitated. We take this violation of our prospects’ belief very critically and can do all the things we will to forestall it from occurring once more.”
