Mainichi Daily News
“She” strutted into the train carriage, hitched up “her” black miniskirt, and slumped down on the Hankyu Line train seat with “her” legs spread. From a hole in “her” pantyhose protruded an object that not only gave away the fact that “she” was a “he,” but also suggested that he was in a very happy mood, indeed, according to Shukan Asahi (6/23).
He/she was 56-year-old Yutaka Ikeuchi, who was arrested for indecent exposure. Police collared him when he tried to escape after a group of girls on the train started asking him what the hell he thought he was doing.
“He gave us a false name at first, but then let us know that he had an apartment in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture,” a police source tells Shukan Asahi.
When he’s not prancing around Kansai wearing women’s clothing, Ikeuchi is actually every bit as stiff and staid as he was on the train; only in a different way, as the head of the general affairs division in the Amagasaki Municipal Government’s Welfare Bureau.
Ikeuchi joined the government in 1973, filling a number of prominent positions and becoming a veteran pen pusher. Public servants are shocked at the fate that has befallen him.
“His wife called us one Monday morning, saying that she hadn’t seen her husband since he left their home early Saturday and wondering if something had happened to him,” an Amagasaki official tells Shukan Asahi. “We had no idea he was into cross-dressing. We were shocked when the police contacted us and told us about it.”