Assistant judge caught taking film with phone up girl’s skirt on train

Toshiki Hanai, a twenty-eight-year-old assistant district court judge in Osaka, has perhaps not surprisingly lost his job.

When you get caught filming up a girl’s skirt (panchira) on a train, you might reasonably expect there to be repercussions if you are supposed to be an upholder of the law!

That’s what Hanai was apparently caught doing in August 2012.

Another male passenger spotted the nimble judge squatting down on the crowded commuter train during the morning rush hour, trying to get a good view with his smartphone of the heavenly world up a girl’s skirt.

The valiant passenger grabbed Hanai while he was red-handed and he was taken into police custody at a station. He admitted during questioning that he was interested to know what kind of underwear the woman had been wearing. Perhaps he should have just asked and saved everyone the bother?

His phone apparently included other images taken up women’s skirts. Habeas corpus, indeed.

He has been dismissed from duty and fined half a million yen.

We wonder if he had ever served as a judge on chikan trials?