Police in Fukui City have arrested a 58-year-old man on suspicion of trespassing in a women's toilet in a park. The man, Hidetoshi Atsuga, was quoted by police as saying he wanted to see women’s buttocks.
According to police, Atsuga, who works at the Horticultural Center of the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Department of the local government, was seen going into the women’s toilet at around 1:40 p.m. Saturday, broadcaster NTV reported.
Police received a call from someone at the park, saying that a man kept going in and out of the women’s toilet. Police officers went to the park and arrested Atsuga on the spot.
Police said Atsuga told them he got turned on by seeing women’s buttocks and that he had peeked at women in toilets before.
© Japan Today
31 Comments
Login to comment
tora
Ummmmm.
Brian Wheway
At least he's being honest, normal excuse is I was drunk, I can't remember blah blah,
Mocheake
Butt he could've ended up seeing the buttocks of a 58-year-old woman and get bummed out.
/dev/random
What "buttocks" was he expecting to see that he couldn't see outside of a toilet?
Some people seem to have wild ideas about what's going on in restrooms. Do they believe people strip nude after entering, frolicking around and proudly presenting their naked bodies?
Speed
I love the straightforward honesty many of the perps in Japan confess to.
BertieWooster
Should have said that he identified as a woman.
factchecker
Another day, another pervert in the city.
/dev/random
That's not how it works and you full well know that.
DatAss
Japanese public lavatories do not alas present one upon entry with the cornucopia of buttocks this gentleman expected, despite the repeat visits.
WoodyLee
HILARIOUS.
Seesaw7
WTF
owzer
It's no different than when other troubled people say it. The only important thing is that he was causing problems. Nobody, man OR woman, should be allowed to do this.
garypen
I can't see the word "buttocks" without hearing Tom Hanks' Forrest Gump voice saying "buh-tocks".
/dev/random
Just because someone "says it" does not mean it stands as a defense, legally or morally. Nobody can self-identify as female on a whim and walk into a women's bathroom. That is a nonsensical fantasy scenario stoked by bad actors. If anything, this example clearly shows that predatory men do not actually wait for justification to enter women's areas.
I agree, this has nothing whatsoever to do with gender identity.
owzer
This, the crime, indeed has nothing to do with gender identity. My comment, however, was not about gender identity.
I agree. Saying you are something you are not does not mean it stands legally or morally or scientifically.
/dev/random
To be clear about my standpoint: I agree that "saying it on a whim" does not make it stand. And that is the talking point of bad faith actors: that it can and will happen on a whim, at a moment's notice. Which is a nonsensical argument in more than one way. Trans people do not decide their identity on a whim, and neither do any governments grant them a different gender identity based on that whim.
But, again, this case is not about gender identity. This is just a garden-variety pervert.
TokyoLiving
To the jail with that clown..
Zaphod
Well, good to see that this sort of thing is still a crime in Japan. In many US states and Western countries, the guy would have just needed to "identify" himself as female, and would be all clear, as sadly, "gender identity" has increasingly written into law in many places.
starpunk
Dumb Child In the City.
Couldn't he just go to a strip joint and see all the women's buttocks and everything else without making a nuisance of himself? What a dopey dufus.
Redemption
Just go to the rotenburo and no arrest. Buttocks buffet.
GuruMick
"To the jail with that clown "
An overabundance of buttocks at shower time.
One bum looks like another to my wizened eyes.
Marlon Brando
Yeah, the news articles give the impression he just said it outright, but I would be surprised if that's how it happened. From what I understand of police interrogation tactics in Japan it's more likely they said to him;
'You wanted to see their buttocks, right?!'
"Yes".
BB
garypenJune 16 10:00 pm JST
I can't see the word "buttocks" without hearing Tom Hanks' Forrest Gump voice saying "buh-tocks".
Thanks for making me spit coffee into my lap.
TheLizardKing
Does he think that they just walk around showing them in there? I don't get it lmao
Wandora
Can he identify as a buttock?
shogun36
someone that disturbed? I doubt he would care what age he saw.
starpunk
Women always look softer and tender, because they are. Not the same as men. That's why so many artists use nude women to capture the light and flesh tones in their paintings. Pierre Auguste Renoir certainly did.
Regardless, this guy has rocks in his head.
Nibek32
You can’t domesticate human’s natural instincts.
spinningplates
If he didn’t tell the cops his name is Seamore Butts, lock him up.
Negative Nancy
MocheakeJune 16 05:12 pm JST
That's a very specific age. I think a lot of people that age (and beyond) would have quite wonderful buttocks. I've always wondered why certain parts of the anatomy are verboten when others are not. That situation in itself creates perversion because people become interested in what they perceive to be taboos. In certain cultures, where it is much more common to see buttocks, this kind of thing is probably not a problem.
Coulda been
These cretins never cease to amaze,