TOKYO, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- A 44-year-old official from Japan's Finance Ministry has been arrested for allegedly taking an upskirt photo of a woman at a train station in the suburbs of Tokyo, local media reported Monday.

Yasutaka Yoneta, who is a member of the ministry's Policy Research Institute, is suspected of placing his smartphone under the skirt of a woman in her 20s and taking a photo without consent. He has denied the charge, Kyodo News said, citing the police.

Yoneta photographed the woman's underwear at around 10 a.m. local time on Oct. 23 while riding an escalator at Minami-Osawa Station in Hachioji, according to the police.

The police questioned Yoneta, who also serves as a specially appointed associate professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University, over a separate incident at the end of October, wherein the image was discovered on his phone, the report said. Enditem

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