A high school teacher has been arrested after he took upskirt shots of a girl at a train station in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, police said Wednesday.

The suspect, Hirokatsu Murakami, a 29-year-old teacher at Yachiyo Shoin High School, is suspected of taking upskirt shots of a 16-year-old high school student with his smartphone while on an escalator at JR Nishi Funabashi Station at around 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Fuji TV reported.

Murakami has admitted to the charge and was quoted by police that he got sexually turned on by taking upskirt photos.

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