HOKKAIDO (TR) – At the opening of the trial of a former Hokkaido Prefectural Police Mobile Unit Officer who stands accused of illicit photography and breaking into a changing room in Hokkaido and Fukushima prefectures over several years, the defendant admitted to the charges, reports Kyodo News (July 19).
On Friday at the Kushiro District Court, Shunsuke Chiba, 24, admitted to allegations of violating the Law Banning the Taking of Sexually Explicit Photographs and trespassing.
According to the indictment, Chiba used his smartphone to take tosatsu (voyeur) photos up the skirts of several women in their teens and twenties in Sapporo and Kushiro, Hokkaido, between August 2023 and May 2025.
In February 2025, he allegedly broke into the women’s changing room of a hotel in Tomioka, Fukushima.
Shunsuke Chiba (X)
After being arrested and indicted in February on suspicion of trespassing, he was arrested again while out on bail on suspicion of attempted voyeurism.
On May 12, he allegedly attempted to film up the skirts of two high school girls at a shopping mall in Kushiro. Upon his arrest, he told police, “I wanted to see a woman’s underwear.”
He has already retired from the Hokkaido Prefectural Police.
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