> Yokohama school teacher arrested for requesting naked pictures of 13yo young boy

YOKOHAMA — A 27-year-old elementary school teacher in Yokohama City was arrested Monday for asking a 13-year-old boy to send pictures of himself naked, police said.

Akio Kazuno, who was a teacher at Eda Higashi Dai-ichi Elementary School, reportedly met the boy at a school volunteer event last year, and sent the boy messages on his cell phone pretending he was a junior high school girl who wanted to be friends. Kazuno started requesting pictures of the boy posing naked once they became “friends,” and used threats such as saying that he would forward the pictures to the boy’s friends if the boy did not comply.

According to police, Kazuno has admitted that he “wanted pictures of young boys.”