“Your Name,” “Suzume” Producer Koichiro Ito Arrested for Soliciting Explicit Images from a Minor
The Japanese anime producer Koichiro Ito was arrested this week by Wakayama police and charged with soliciting nude images of a 15-year-old girl from Nagano he met online. The alleged incident occurred in September of 2021. According to the Mainichi Shimbun, the 52-year-old Ito admitted he knew the young woman was a minor. “I had…