Hyogo man accused of creating AI deepfake porn of woman

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Incident details

Incident ID: inc_2026_08_09_3bf217d8
Date source: article_published_at_fallback
Country: Japan
Platform: Social Media
Incident type: Non Consensual Synthetic Image
Verification level: reported_but_unverified

Harm types

Non Consensual Imagery Harassment Reputational Harm

Topics

Deepfake Synthetic Image Image Manipulation Digital Identity Abuse Authenticity Harm

Summary

Tokyo police arrested 32-year-old Kenta Imoto (Himeji City, Hyogo) on suspicion of using generative AI to create and distribute obscene deepfake images of real women, and charged him with defamation and violating child pornography laws; Imoto admitted the allegations. Investigators say he processed about 300 images of females in their teens and twenties (focusing on track-and-field uniforms), created two nude images from a photo of a girl known to be under 18 (an image taken at a middle school sports festival), and posted fabricated images on a social-media bulletin board; police also plan to refer a 17-year-old who allegedly supplied originals and requested the edits. About 3,800 obscene images and videos, including material believed to be AI-generated child pornography, were found on Imoto’s smartphone, and police say the suspects appear to have scraped source photos from the internet and social media without personal acquaintance of the victims.

Sources

Hyogo man accused of creating AI deepfake porn of woman - TokyoReporter

tokyoreporter.com · 2026-08-09 · Primary