Kyoto is an elegant city of history, culture and temples. But there are also plenty of inventive folk with cameras looking to snap a shot between the legs of an unsuspecting schoolgirl or two. As The Japan Times reports: Surreptitious filming or taking of pictures up the skirts of high school females has long made headlines throughout Japan. A whole subgenre of magazines exists for peeping Toms who earn their living by taking photos on the sly, while the Internet has created unprecedented opportunities for getting photos and video out to the peeping public. In an attempt to crack down on ...

Caught in the act. A smart lady has caught a man trying not too discreetly to snap a shot of her panties while sitting opposite her on the train. She then put it on Twitter for the world to see. If her tweets are to be believed, she would appear to be a high school student. This kind of thing happens every day in Japan. There are lots of perverts on the trains, including so-called respected professionals. It reminds us of this other incompetent snapper on a train, himself photographed being none too subtle about his under-the-skirt ...

An incredibly indiscreet pervert taking photos (or video) of a girl's underwear on a busy train was himself photographed in the act. The image of him being incredibly unsubtle in his crime soon enough went viral on Twitter. The photo was taken by someone at 17:04 before arriving at Kawaguchi Station on the Keihin-Tohoku Line, running between the suburbs of Tokyo. The man seems to have a technique, given the way he leans forward with this seemingly blank and innocent facial expression, his phone just apparently stretched out like that. Perhaps, though, he should first have glanced around ...