Japanese policeman in sailor-style schoolgirl uniform arrested for flashing

A policeman in Tokyo has been arrested for allegedly flashing his genitals at a schoolgirl. Reports say the 37-year-old man was dressed in a sailor-style schoolgirl uniform at the time of the offence. The officer, who has been named as Kazuya Tsukada, is an assistant inspector with the traffic division. He is believed to have entered an apartment building in Musashino and got into the elevator at the same time as a 16-year-old schoolgirl.

“Tsukada, while dressed up in a middie blouse resembling a high school girl’s uniform, boarded the elevator in the apartment while the teenaged girl was already in the elevator,” a police source said. “He pressed a button for a floor lower than the girl’s destination, and after disembarking from the elevator turned to her and said ‘Mite kudasai!‘ (Please take a look), and then pulled up his skirt, revealing his genitals. The girl, predictably, reacted with shock, and Tsukada fled the scene. He was not wearing any underwear and had on a woman’s wig.”



Tsukada was apprehended near JR Musashi Sakai station and under questioning confessed to having made similar transgressions in west Tokyo suburbs from October of last year. “There seem to be two types of cross-dressers,” Meiji University lecturer Osamu Seki said. “One is the pattern by which they affect female clothing and behaviour to appeal to gay men. The other would be men who wish to flee from reality. Tsukada would be of the latter type. I often hear about men who claim that wearing women’s garments help them relax, by relieving them from constricted feelings from wearing a uniform or business suit.

“Often such males don’t have a satisfactory sex life, and they compensate by flashing. By dressing up as a female and exposing himself, I would imagine the subject got twice the thrill,” said Seki, who added, “By using polite Japanese when saying ‘Look at me,’ Tsukada shows he is a straightforward person at heart. He would be the type of cop who couldn’t bring himself to patronize a sex shop. His walking around in public close to where he committed his crime may indicate he had a latent desire to be apprehended.”