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The Independent
20-05-2025
- The Independent
Singaporean man arrested in Japan for allegedly committing indecent acts in hot spring
A Singaporean man has been arrested in Japan for allegedly committing indecent acts with a teenage boy at a hot spring, police said. The 55-year-old suspect, who was not named, allegedly touched the minor inappropriately at an onsen inn in the central prefecture of Niigata, local media reported. The man allegedly touched the minor's genitals multiple times despite him resisting at a hot spring facility in Tagami town on 14 May, according to Niigata News. Two days after the alleged incident, police arrested the suspect from the Niigata train station after a relative of the boy filed a complaint. The man, who was holidaying in Japan, has denied the allegations against him. 'I only put my hand on the left shoulder of the seated boy to get out of the bath, I did not commit any indecent act,' he reportedly told police. Police said they have launched an investigation into the incident. It was the latest incident of alleged sexual misconduct at Japan 's famed public baths to make headlines. In 2024, a former counsellor at the Singaporean embassy in Japan was convicted of filming a naked boy at a public bath in Tokyo. Sim Siong Chy was removed from his position after being fined 300,000 yen over the incident. In another case, a former assemblywoman accused the mayor of a hot springs resort town of sexually assaulting her in his office in 2015. Nobutada Kuroiwa, the mayor of Kusatsu, a famous hot springs resort north of Tokyo, denied the accusations as '100 per cent a lie and fabrication' and claimed they were motivated by a dispute over a hot springs policy. In 2023, Shizuoka police dismantled a 30-year voyeurism ring that secretly filmed more than 10,000 women at hot springs across Japan, exposing significant lapses in facility oversight. The operation, involving 17 arrests, shocked the public and led to demands for better security measures at hot springs like cameras in non-bathing areas and enhanced staff training.
Yahoo
16-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
This $120K Tiny Home Is a Tea House on Wheels
Tiny House Japan's units are designed like saunas—with plenty of cedar to withstand heat and steam. Welcome to Tiny Home Profiles, an interview series with people pushing the limits of living small. From space-saving hacks to flexible floor plans, here's what they say makes for the best tiny homes on the planet. Know of a builder we should talk to? Reach out. Haruhiko Tagami had been living in his 1960s Eriba Puck when he came across a unique problem: however timeless the travel tailer was, it was not equipped for putting the kettle on. "During winter months, boiling water would result in wall-to-wall condensation, and without absorbent tape, even the sleeping bag would get wet," Tagami recalls. "Mold gradually grew and the ceiling turned black, and the room began to smell like mold." Coming from a family that had owned a sawmill, and having once apprenticed as a carpenter, obtaining a second-class architect license (a credential needed in Japan to design smaller buildings), Tagami was well qualified to build a trailer that better suited his needs. "I thought I might be able to build a comfortable wooden one," he tells us. "So I bought a used bike trailer and built a Usonia-style home out of Japanese cedar." That was in 2014. Since, his company, Tiny House Japan, has made several designs that follow Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonia principles—from a deployable emergency shelter, to an itinerant tea house, to a stationary home made up of two linked modules—that each aims to make the most of a five-and-a-half meter trailer bed. Here, Tagami shares the philosophy behind his work, a few of his past projects, and his latest build that's ready for tea-making: the Triangular Roof House. How did you decide to live in and build tiny homes? My partner and I have sensitivities to sound and pesticides and have lived in and out of various places. Because of these experiences, it was reasonable for us to have a house that we could move around in, rather than live in one place. From a production standpoint, it was also rational that we could build homes for distant clients in our factory. See the full story on This $120K Tiny Home Is a Tea House on WheelsRelated stories: Meet the Emerging Designers From 2025 ICFF's Launch Pad at WANTED These Midcentury Reissues Are Crafted to Be True Collector's Items Two Dwell Staffers Debate the Best of Salone del Mobile
