Tokyo police have asked the Singaporean Embassy to help bring a diplomat back to Japan for questioning over photos he took of naked males at public bathhouses in the capital, investigative sources said.
The Metropolitan Police Department made the request through Japan’s Foreign Ministry.
The 55-year-old former Singaporean counselor was caught using his smartphone to take secret photos of a naked boy in the changing room at a “sento” public bathhouse in Tokyo’s Minato Ward on Feb. 27.
He admitted to the allegations when he was questioned by police at the facility, and he even showed and deleted other pictures of naked males in bathhouses, the sources said.
But he refused to accompany the officers to a police station and left the scene. Police could not detain him because of diplomatic immunity.
The man completed his term as counselor at the embassy and returned to Singapore in April.
The embassy told The Asahi Shimbun that Singapore’s foreign ministry has suspended the man and pledged to thoroughly investigate the matter.
The ministry has said it will consider waiving diplomatic immunity if the allegations against the man are true.
[https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15265984](https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15265984)
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