The Metropolitan Police Department has referred a man in his 30s from Gunma Prefecture to prosecutors on suspicion of public indecency and disrespect for a place of worship, after he exposed his lower body in front of the Masakado mound in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, and streamed part of it, investigative sources said. The referral was made by Friday, Kyodo News reported.
The Masakado mound, known in Japanese as Masakado-zuka, is a grave site in central Tokyo that honors Taira no Masakado, a 10th-century warrior whose rebellion against the imperial court ended in his death.
Disrespect for a place of worship — in Japanese, reihaisho fukei — is a criminal charge covering acts that desecrate shrines, temples, graves or other sites used for religious observance.
The case points to the way streamers now treat notable sites as material for content, with the search for viewers pushing some of them into acts that break the law.