CHIBA (Kyodo) A 47-year-old Tokyo police officer who is also a bodyguard for ranking opposition lawmaker Nobuteru Ishihara was arrested Thursday on suspicion of trespassing and admitted he was trying to spy on a woman taking a bath, police said.
Masahiro Kato, an assistant inspector in the Metropolitan Police Department, was observed standing near a bathroom window by a resident of a house in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, at around 11:10 p.m. Wednesday while a woman inside was bathing.
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