Overview
- Sapporo Central Police arrested a 37-year-old associate professor from Hokkaido University’s Graduate School on suspicion of violating the Sexual Imaging Punishment Law after security staff at a Sapporo shopping facility reported a man filming under a woman’s skirt.
- Officers who responded to the July 2 report found video on the suspect’s smartphone that police say appears to show the recorded woman and took the suspect into custody at the scene.
- Reports identify the suspect as Ryōki Kamijō, a graduate-school associate professor, and say he has admitted the allegation to police.
- The reported victim is an unnamed woman in her 20s who lives in Ebetsu, and the facility’s security guard who noticed the act made the 110 call that led to the arrest.
- Hokkaido University has not released a full public statement beyond confirming it is reviewing the matter, and authorities say investigations and any formal charges will follow as police examine the evidence.