Overview
- A Nagoya court found Daiki Sawada and Keisuke Tsugeno guilty of taking and sharing indecent images of students, sentencing each to three years in prison suspended for five years.
- Judge Megumi Murase called Sawada’s conduct an obvious and malicious abuse of his position, with the suspension granted after agreements on compensation and therapy.
- Draft rules would require regular checks of classrooms, restrooms, and changing rooms to deter covert recording devices.
- The proposals bar teachers from photographing students with personal smartphones and make dismissal mandatory for indecent acts against children.
- The crackdown follows the arrest of seven Tokyo teachers last year, with official data showing 281 school staff disciplined for sexual offenses in FY2024 and a 2023 law criminalizing nonconsensual voyeuristic imaging.