Overview
- The suspect was detained at the scene Sunday night after a commuter behind him subdued him on an escalator at JR Ichikawa Station.
- Police say he pointed a smartphone under the skirt of a woman in her 20s who was riding ahead of him.
- Investigators report images of the woman on his phone that they say support his admission that he tried to record under her skirt.
- Officers booked him on suspicion of violating Japan’s law that punishes photographing a person’s sexual appearance, applied here as an attempted offense.
- He is identified as Naoto Minbuta, 41, of Tokyo’s Shinagawa Ward, who told police he is a section chief at the agriculture ministry, a claim not independently verified.