Sex tourist gets suspended jail sentence
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A FORMER school headteacher, who reportedly paid for sex with 12,000 women in the Philippines, has been convicted in Japan for taking photos of naked Filipino girls.
The Yokohama District Court sentenced Yuhei Takashima, 65, to two years in prison with the term suspended for four years, a spokesman said.
Takashima, who reportedly had sex with girls as young as 14, escaped prison with a promise not to offend again.
Quoting the verdict, Japan’s Jiji Press said the girls pictured were “aged between 12 and 14” and were photographed at a hotel in the Philippines about two years ago.
According to local media, Takashima catalogued nearly 150,000 photographs of his sexual encounters over a 27-year period in about 400 albums.
He was quoted as having said in court that he “has a habit of collecting things” and wanted “to keep the memories.”
The former middle-school principal started paying for sex when he was dispatched to a Japanese school in Manila in 1988. He later went on three sex tours a year to the country, making a total of 65 visits.
During that time, he had sex with more than 12,000 women, with Nippon TV saying they were aged between 14 and 70.
Presiding judge Naoko Omori called Takashima’s action “despicable and vicious,” saying he “took advantage of the economic plight of young girls” in the Philippines, according to Jiji.
“Either in Japan or in the Philippines, children should be protected. He should have known that,” she said.
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