Tokyo police have obtained an arrest warrant for a YouTuber and former lawmaker, currently residing overseas, on suspicion of making threatening and defamatory statements about celebrities in videos on his YouTube channel, investigative sources say.
Tokyo police are pursuing a warrant to arrest former Diet politician Yoshikazu Higashitani on suspicion he violated Japan’s penal code by threatening celebrities in salacious gossip videos he published online under the pseudonym “GaaSyy.”
Tokyo police obtained an arrest warrant Thursday for a YouTuber and former lawmaker, currently residing overseas, on suspicion of making threatening and defamatory statements about celebrities in videos on his YouTube channel, investigative sources said. The police will ask the Foreign Ministry to confiscate the passport of Yoshikazu Higashitani, also…
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