KYOTO (TR) – A man calling himself the “Voyeur Master” has been arrested over the alleged taking of secret photos up women’s skirts and posting them on social media.
On October 28, 2023, Yuta Kanazawa, a 23-year-old office worker, secretly took photos up a woman’s skirt with his smartphone at a shopping center in Hamamatsu City’s Chuo Ward. He then sent the images to a group on social media, providing them to four people, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Sep. 12).
Upon his arrest on suspicion of violating the Law Banning the Taking of Sexually Explicit Photographs, Kanazawa admitted to the allegations, police said.
“Voyeur Master”
In the profile section of his social media accounts, Kanazawa calls himself the “Voyeur Master” and “S-class Voyeur.”
Kanazawa, who lives in Kosai City, Shizuoka Prefecture, is said to have formed a group on social media consisting of 28 people across 20 prefectures whose common interest is tosatsu, or the taking the of voyeur photographs.
Members of the group shared videos and the methods they used to take them.
An examination of the seized smartphone of Kanazawa contained about 1,200 images and videos that are believed to have been taken secretly.