A veteran journalist with the Washington Post was arrested for allegedly groping a high school girl while riding a subway in Tokyo, police said Monday.
Shigehiko Togo, 56, a correspondent with the newspaper's Tokyo bureau, was arrested on the spot Nov. 13 for allegedly violating a municipal ordinance on harassment prevention, police said.
Togo is suspected of touching the 18-year-old inside a train on the Chiyoda Line in Chiyoda Ward, police said. He has already been indicted.
Togo reportedly confessed to investigators that he touched the girl because he thought she was "cute." He also apologized for the incident, police said.
Togo became a reporter at the Washington Post in 1976 after a stint at the Asahi Shimbun.
He drew attention in 1993 when he scooped the engagement of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess.