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The story
Kyoto Prefecture announced on the 8th that it has disciplined a male deputy chief (62) from an agency under the Nantan Regional Development Bureau with a three-month suspension, after he repeatedly broke into the women’s restroom at his workplace and took used sanitary pads. The man resigned that same day. The case came to light separately from the incident itself: during a police stop in a shopping-facility parking lot in Osaka Prefecture, officers found used sanitary pads in a bag inside his car, and he admitted to having taken them from the restroom at his workplace. On 5ch, the thread saw a range of reactions over the severity of the punishment, how his retirement pay would be handled, and his motive.
September 8, 2026, 6:42 PM
Kyoto Prefecture announced on the 8th that it had disciplined a male deputy chief (62) at a regional agency under the Nantan Regional Development Bureau with a three-month suspension for breaking into the women’s restroom at the government building where he worked. The man resigned effective the same day.
According to the prefecture, during a police stop in a shopping-facility parking lot in Osaka Prefecture, a bag containing used sanitary pads was found in his car, and the man admitted to having taken them from a restroom at his workplace.
Source: kyoto-np.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Thanks to relentless curiosity, all kinds of things have been developed.
Even as a guy myself, I think that's creepy — please don't lump us all together.
do perverts actually like sanitary pads?
That's a pro.
It's trash anyway, and he's not really hurting anyone, so who cares?
Call him Eco-Grandpa and worship him.
'Perverted Dracula' offense (joking name, not a real charge).
But if getting caught only gets you a suspension, he'll probably do it again.
So this kind of guy really exists in real life lol
Kyoto Prefecture sure is lenient.
He threw it away so it's fine!!!
*huff… huff…*
But that means he still walks away with full retirement pay, right?
> Announced that the male deputy chief (62) was given a disciplinary three-month suspension.
> The man resigned effective the same day.
I'm shaken that this copypasta turned out to be true.
Multiple times, and you're a pervert.
You've got… potential, in a lot of ways…
Probably counts as "doing his job" once it's written up in the report.
He took this much risk, so she's got to be at least slightly above average — that's the mindset. Or if she smells nice, she gets an automatic "slightly above average" rating.
That's SDGs for you (a joking, ironic nod to "Sustainable Development Goals").
Guess the saying holds: not "where one god forsakes, another god provides" but "where one pad is discarded, another is picked up" (a pun — 神/kami "god" swapped for 紙/kami "paper," same pronunciation).
Well, that's the lenient part of it.
He was going to quit anyway.
Apparently the smell of a used pad is similar to McDonald's chicken nuggets.
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Background and key points of this story
Disciplinary action for Japanese local government employees comes in four tiers — reprimand, pay cut, suspension, and dismissal. Suspension is on the severe end but stops short of dismissal, so retirement benefits are handled differently than under a disciplinary or forced dismissal, and in some cases are still paid out close to in full. Comments on the thread like “suspend him and he still rakes in full retirement pay” reflect an understanding of this system. It’s also easy to miss that the case wasn’t uncovered because of the pad theft itself — it came to light through an unrelated police stop in Osaka Prefecture, where the items happened to turn up among his belongings in the car. Reactions on the thread split between those saying “he’s not really hurting anyone” and those who viewed repeatedly breaking into a workplace restroom to steal items as theft and a privacy violation in its own right.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Express+) thread “[SDGs] Kyoto Prefecture employee repeatedly breaks into women’s restroom, steals used sanitary pads — 62-year-old man suspended, ‘was interested in the color and smell’“.
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