23-Year-Old Suspect Claiming to be Secret Filming Master Shakes from Excessive Filming with Abnormal Methods

The suspect had the audacity to call for the holding of a “National Secret Filming Tournament” on social media.

On September 10, the Kyoto Prefectural Police arrested Yuta Kanazawa, a 23-year-old company employee from Shizuoka Prefecture, on suspicion of violating the law against the filming and provision of sexual acts for secretly filming under women’s skirts and posting it on social media.

“The Kanazawa suspect reportedly secretly filmed under a woman’s skirt with his smartphone in a commercial facility in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, last October. He then posted the video to a LINE group, sharing it with four members” (a reporter from a national newspaper’s social affairs department).

The suspect, who called himself a “secret filming master,” had formed multiple “secret filming groups” online.

 

“Determining the Champion of Secret Filming”

“The Kanazawa suspect clearly stated “Secret Filming Master” and “S-Class Secret Filming Demon” in his social media profile and would send direct messages to those who followed him. Through direct communication, he would select individuals with secret filming experience to invite them to secret filming groups. This is how he formed multiple groups to share secret filming photos.

Among them, the group named “Large Team Secret Filming” had the most members, with 28 participants from 20 prefectures, including a 15-year-old high school student. The Kanazawa suspect sent messages saying, “Those interested in secret filming, those confident in their secret filming abilities, gather here, fierce competitors and criminals from across the country, for a tournament to determine the champion of secret filming” (investigative sources).

The Kanazawa suspect posted messages in the group like “Shaking all over from filming secretly too much” and “Let’s form a world united secret filming team.” Members evaluated the photos shared in the group and exchanged techniques, asking questions like, “How did you take this?”

“The Kanazawa suspect rated the photos taken in high-difficulty situations more highly. The images posted in the group clearly showed the filming locations and the women’s faces. While viewing the secret filming images, members commented, ‘The passing line for underwear is white, pink, blue, light blue’ and ‘Black, green, and red are questionable.’ Photos were shared and disseminated without the victims’ knowledge” (same source).

The Kyoto Prefectural Police plan to arrest the members of the secret filming groups as soon as the suspicions are confirmed. Instead of holding a “National Secret Filming Tournament,” it seems likely that participants will face mass arrests.