TOKYO —A former president of IBM Japan has been questioned by police after allegedly filming up the skirt of an unsuspecting woman in a train station, local media reported Thursday, Japan Today reported.
Takuma Otoshi, 63, used his iPod to take the illicit footage as the woman rode an escalator at a busy Tokyo station, the Yomiuri Shimbun and the Mainichi Shimbun reported.
StockpicTakuma Otoshi, 63, used his iPod to take the illicit footage as the woman rode an escalator at a busy Tokyo station, the Yomiuri Shimbun and the Mainichi Shimbun reported.
Passers-by saw what he was doing and reported him to police officers who found the recording, the papers said. Otoshi told officers he was “interested in voyeurism”, according to investigators.
Broadcaster NTV said the case would be sent to prosecutors “soon.”
Otoshi was president of the Japanese unit of the U.S. giant from December 1999 to January 2009. For around the last nine months of his term, he was also chairman, a position he continued to hold until May 2012, when he became the most senior adviser to the firm, according to IBM Japan’s website.
A company spokesman Thursday said he had resigned from that post. He gave no details about the resignation and said the company had no comment on the media stories.
Police in Tokyo refused to confirm the allegations.