550 students caught taking voyeuristic images since 2023, police say

A total of 550 junior high and high school students in Japan were found to have taken voyeuristic photos or videos of others over a period of nearly two years since a law took effect making such acts illegal, police said Friday.About 40 percent of the students who violated the law, or 219, were found to have done so on school grounds, according to data from the National Police Agency. Of those found to have taken images of fellow students, 423 were in high school and 81 in junior high school.The law concerning the taking of surreptitious images came into force in July 2023, with the data ta…READ FULL ARTICLE