Overview
- Hyogo Prefectural Police arrested the 45-year-old manager on Friday on suspicion of using a hidden camera to film a woman and of biting her finger.
- The alleged recording took place in a Kobe Port Tower Hotel room early Thursday, with a small power bank–shaped camera set facing the bed.
- Police said the woman, a 26-year-old dispatch-service worker he had summoned, spotted the device and tried to leave before he bit her hand.
- Investigators are reviewing footage from the device as the suspect claims he tried to film but captured nothing and admits biting without recalling details.
- Japan outlaws covert filming of a person's sexual state, and cases involving compact recording devices in hotels may prompt tighter privacy safeguards.