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Police in Tokyo have arrested a 26-year-old man after it was discovered that he had taken, on 25 different occasions, "peeping tom" photos and videos of two junior high school sisters while they were bathing at their home in Sugimami Ward.
According to police, between August and October last year, Takamasa Shiraishi entered the premises of a home in Suginami Ward 25 times and took photographs and videos on his smartphone from the bathroom window as the two girls were bathing one after the other, Fuji TV reported.
Shiraishi, who is a computer game programmer, was quoted by police as saying he had been unable to stop himself due to "overwhelming stress and worries at work." He was apprehended in April after being caught on the grounds of an apartment building in Setagaya Ward.
Police said they have discovered at least a dozen photographs and videos of teenage girls on trains and in bathrooms on Shiraishi's smartphone, as well as a table describing particular characteristics of girls on his computer.
© Japan Today
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Christopher Glen
It's Wednesday. We're onto peeping toms now are we?
wtfjapan
It's Wednesday. We're onto peeping toms now are we? when isnt there a story in the news of a pervert getting caught, just the tip of the iceburg.
Sensato
It sounds to me like he was much more busy with his hobby than with work.
zootmoney
Using the excuse of "stress" for any crime is pathetic. If any authority gives such an excuse any credence, it is even more pathetic. And if I were the father of these girls, I would like to give this creep something to really stress him out.
Christopher Glen
I was attempting levity. It's either a story about an elderly man killing his wife, or vice versa. Or parents killing their child. But as you said, the tip of the iceburg
Serrano
He's got overwhelming stress and worries at work, does he? Hey, so do millions of other people, who don't peep at girls taking a bath.
Mirai Hayashi
Why don't you just watch porn?
Peeping_Tom
Innocent until found (not proven) guilty!
Yokota
the Peeping tom's are back again, actin a mff again THAT's them! between the sniffers, clothes line snatchers, and peeping tom's you never know who's gonna act a mff again, That's Them!
harvey pekar
Huh, and now people are going to be watching him bath! People with gang tattoos, and armed guards... Enjoy!
fuzzylogic
and dont forget the gropers and stalkers too.
DaDude
How convenient you posting here with your name and all.
Wc626
What loser. Getting your jollies on photographing a pair of sisters. Overwhelming stress at work? We've all been stressed @ work, but there are other ways to alleviate stress.
Dennis Bauer
Maybe he can join that police unit that searches the net for unsavory stuff.
nath
So he was in the house photographing through a window into the ofuro and one girl walked out past him and the other entered and did not see him? What kind of ofuro has a window inside the house?
Thunderbird2
He isn't a peeping tom, he's a paedophile.
Steve Crichton
Hasnt heard of the internet. The girl get paid and everybody is happy.
SenseNotSoCommon
Well said, T2. The guy is a paedophile who created pornography of underaged girls for his sexual gratification.
Peeping Tom, like that other ridiculous euphemism Eve Teasing, is grossly inappropriate in this case.