The Metropolitan Police Department arrested a 65-year-old dance instructor on Thursday on suspicion of secretly filming a girl with a small camera he had placed in a toilet at the street dance studio where he worked.
Hiroyuki Sakuma, of Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo, was rearrested on suspicion of violating the Act on Punishing Photographing of Sexual Images and Other Acts (secret filming) and other charges. He told investigators that he had done it but had been targeting an adult woman, according to the police.
The police said Sakuma is suspected of installing the camera inside a private toilet at a dance studio in Tokyo in late August and filming a girl who attended the studio. The filming came to light in October when the child noticed the camera and told another instructor.
Sakuma had already been arrested in October on suspicion of attempted filming of sexual images after he allegedly tried to film in the same toilet that month. Video believed to have been taken on a different day was found on a smartphone seized from him, and the police are investigating further.