Japan: Elementary school teachers arrested over indecent images

The men shared indecent photos and videos of girls with a chat group of 10 teachers from various schools.

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The two men, a 42-year-old teaching at a public school in Nagoya and a 37-year-old based in a public school in Yokohama, admitted taking some photographs and videos of girls below the age of 13, local police told the BBC.

The images - including so-called upskirt photographs - were then shared in the group of 10 primary and junior high school teachers, which was managed by one of the arrested.

Japan has only recently banned upskirting and the secret filming of sexual acts as part of wider sex crime reforms.

The teachers' group chat came to light after one of the teachers involved was arrested for having "deposited bodily fluids" on a 15-year-old girl's backpack, Japan's Asahi Shimbun reported.