Man Taking Photos up Women's Skirts Blackmailed

This is okay, but don't blackmail that cool dude.

Tarou Yoshida (28) was arrested for blackmailing an office worker in Shinjuku on July 3rd. The office worker (48) was minding his own business at a building next to Shinjuku Station, using his smartphone to take a photo up a woman's skirt around 8:00pm. Mr. Yoshida stopped the man and said something like, "I saw what you did. Shall we go to the police station?" He then made the office worker go to a nearby ATM and pay him ¥500,000 (around $5,000) promising he wouldn't talk. Apparently this office worker has no sense of honor at all, because he later told the police of this incident.

Mr. Yoshida admitted to all of it saying, "Yeah, I did something wrong, but taking photos up women's skirts is wrong as well." This seems like a logical statement, but the police have not yet arrested the office worker (despite the fact that he admits he did it) because they haven't been able to identify the victim. The article doesn't say this, but I would guess he erased the photo(s) as well, so no evidence exists (except for the admission of guilt). It's kind of like how if you filmed yourself raping a raccoon, and then no raccoon came forward saying they had been raped, the police couldn't do anything about it, right? I'm trying to say that raping a raccoon is the perfect crime.

According to the police, in the same building another 28-year-old man, Kentaro Nagasaka, attempted to blackmail two men in their 20s again for taking photos of women's underwear. Really makes you think, "Wow, what a small world," or something, huh? Because of this, the police have warned people to be on the look out for both people taking perverted pictures of women and the horrible criminals trying to blackmail these fine citizens.

Source: Yomiuri Online