Kazuhide Uekusa

Kazuhide Uekusa (???? Uekusa Kazuhide, born December 18, 1960 in Tokyo) is a Japanese economist, economic analyst, former professor at Waseda University graduate school, and chairman of the Three-Nations Research Institute Co., Ltd..

Criminal Events

Today, he is mostly known as "Mirrorman" for being arrested on April 8, 2004 because he tried to peep under a high school girl's skirt using his hand mirror on the escalator of the Japan Railway Shinagawa Station. He was dismissed from being a professor on May 7, 2004 because of the arrest, despite denying the charges. He held a news conference in Kasumigaseki on August 30, 2004, where he said "I was told I'd be able to go home quickly if I admitted my guilt, and so I admitted it. Clearly, this is a police frameup. I swear by heaven and earth I'm innocent".

Related Topics:
April 8 - 2004 - Peep - High school - Girl - Skirt - Mirror - Escalator - Japan Railway - Shinagawa Station - May 7 - News conference - Kasumigaseki - August 30 - Police - Frameup

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His trial was opened at the Tokyo District Court on March 23, 2005 and the Chief Justice sentenced him to "Paying the fine of 500,000 yen and confiscating his hand mirror". He insisted that it was an "unfair judgement" and showed intentions of appealing. He is recorded as saying, "you can take the damned money but just give me back my handmirror." The ruling was established however as he did not make the appeal by the deadline on April 6, 2005.

Related Topics:
Trial - District Court - March 23 - 2005 - Chief Justice - Yen - Unfair - Intention - Appeal - Deadline - April 6

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Additionally, there is a standing criminal record that required he pay the fine of 50,000 yen for lewd exposure and advances on a woman while on the JR Tokaido Main Line from Yokohama Station to Kawasaki Station at about 9:20 p.m. on January 30, 1998. He allegedly caressed the foot of a woman standing opposite him, and then proposed he masturbated for her in his trousers. The woman went to the train conductor and reported the incident. Uekusa was then escorted off the train by the Kanagawa Prefecture police.

Related Topics:
Criminal record - Fine - Tokaido Main Line - Yokohama Station - Kawasaki Station - P.m. - January 30 - 1998 - Kanagawa Prefecture

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