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58-year-old man arrested for filming up woman’s skirt

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Police in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, have arrested a 58-year-old man on suspicion of filming up the skirt of a woman while she was on an escalator last month.

According to police, Koichiro Sakamoto, a contract worker, has admitted to the charge. 

The incident occurred at around 8:55 a.m. on July 1 as the 39-year-old woman was on an escalator at Saginuma Station on the Tokyu Denentoshi Line, Sankei Shimbun reported. Sakamoto is accused of using his smartphone to film up the woman’s skirt. However, the woman noticed him and he fled back down the escalator and ran out of the station.

Police said Sakamoto was identified from station surveillance camera footage.

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What is it with these idiots? And he can't face being noticed and he runs when he's been caught. I've seen guys in men's room do the same thing on males, filming somebody's junk. Sickos and losers!

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At least it wasn’t a 14 year old school girl. Still sick though.

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same story almost every month.

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Japanese don't have sex education and are fed with kawai girls manga with huge boobs.

Social interactions are so low between men and women that one needs to pay to get in touch with the other sex.

Most guys have never tried even simple natural flirting.

What do you expect ?

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This goes on everywhere and everyday in Japan. I’ve seen it many times at train stations throughout Tokyo and Chiba. The first time I saw it I apprehended the creep and ended up in more trouble than him. After that I just acknowledge I saw them do it and watch them run like the perverted cowards they really are. One time I walked up to the creep and enthusiastically asked him to show me the photo (in Japanese). His face went white with big round eyes and he bolted out of the station. There are way too many perverted and cowardly creeps in Japan.

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Oh no, 8:30 am. Can't use the "I was drunk, don't remember" The creep is going down.

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@ EMM

Never said it was right. I just said that we know how to do things right because we have been "educated", even if you don't realize it.

Left without any clue, one behaves as a caveman. I see it that way.

I mean that I never heard a man tell police in my country saying he wanted to touch breasts by curiosity tonewplzin his deeds.

I try to understand and explain by experience the root causes of such strange behavior.

Did you know that if you are seen in the open public as a man talking alone to a young lady means necessarily you are trying to get intimately involved with the lady in Japan. There is no in between.

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Sakamoto is accused of using his smartphone to film up the woman’s skirt.

Really amateur effort considering the possibilities that camera minaturaztion offer. He will be laughed out of his sweaty-palmed voyeur circle upon release.

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"The first time I saw it I apprehended the creep and ended up in more trouble than him."

What does that tell you? It means they want their world to crumble without interference, so let let it be.

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The powaa of the pantsu compels him

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This oyaji still has raging testosterone in his testicles?

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Most guys have never tried even simple natural flirting.

Most Japanese women would not respond positively to what you believe is "simple natural flirting". There are deep issues on both sides of the gender divide here. Neither side is doing much right at all.

Japanese don't have sex education

No formal sex education program addresses how men should approach women. Japanese do have formal sex education just like everybody else. What they don't seem to have is informal sex education from parents, siblings and friends and they also don't have relaxed, private opportunities for interaction with non-family opposite gender.

In cases of upskirters like this, I feel a mix of annoyance and pity. But half the annoyance is directed at the society that created them.

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