Female teacher arrested for photographing 11-year-old school girls naked

TOKYO —

Police said that a 25-year-old female teacher at a school in Kunitachi, Tokyo, has been arrested after she was found in possession of nude videos of 11-year-old girls under her care.

According to police, the woman, who has been named as Kaori Yamakawa, is alleged to have taken videos of female sixth-grade students while in a large, communal hotel bath on a school trip to Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture. Police say the images were discovered during a search of Yamakawa’s apartment that was carried out as a result of her being spotted taking photos in the girls’ changing room at a swimming pool during an outing to in Tokyo last month.

During police questioning, Yamakawa was quoted as saying that she likes looking at girls’ beautiful breasts.