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Masanaga Kageyama was on a flight to Chile for the Under-20 World Cup when the crew raised the alarm.<\/em><\/p>\n Published On 7 Oct 2025<\/span>7 Oct 2025<\/span><\/p>\n Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n share2<\/p>\n A senior Japanese Football Association official has been sentenced to an 18-month suspended jail term in France for \u201cviewing child pornography images\u201d during a plane journey.<\/p>\n Masanaga Kageyama, the association\u2019s technical director, was arrested during a stopover at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris on the way to Chile last week, according to Le Parisien newspaper.<\/p>\n list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/p>\n It is believed he was heading to Chile for the Under-20 World Cup.<\/p>\n \u201cThe facts were discovered by the plane\u2019s flight crew, who raised the alarm after noticing that the convicted man was viewing child pornography images on the plane,\u201d the court prosecutor\u2019s office in Bobigny, north of Paris, said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n The court sentenced the 58-year-old on Monday to a suspended jail term of 18 months and a fine of 5,000 euros ($5,830) for importing, possessing, recording or saving pornographic images of a minor below the age of 15.<\/p>\n His sentence includes a ban on working with minors for 10 years and a ban on returning to France for the period.<\/p>\n Kageyama will also be added to the French national sex offenders\u2019 register.<\/p>\n Le Parisien reported that flight attendants caught him viewing the images on his laptop in the business class cabin of an Air France flight.<\/p>\n He claimed to be an artist and insisted the photos had been generated by artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n During his court appearance, the report said, Kageyama admitted viewing the images, saying he did not realise it was illegal in France and that he was ashamed.<\/p>\n He was held in police custody over the weekend until his court appearance on Monday. He was released after the hearing.<\/p>\n Kageyama is responsible for implementing measures to strengthen Japan\u2019s football teams, including the national team, as well as educating coaches and nurturing youth players.<\/p>\n He was a professional J-League footballer himself and also coached several J-League clubs. He had also managed Japan\u2019s under-20, under-19 and under-18 teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Masanaga Kageyama was on a flight to Chile for the Under-20 World Cup when the crew raised the alarm. Published On 7 Oct 20257 Oct 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share A senior Japanese Football Association official has been sentenced to an 18-month suspended jail term in France for \u201cviewing child<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[681,1413,1506,3556,150,5323,6867,2250,15893],"class_list":{"0":"post-26452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-child","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-images","11":"tag-japanese","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-official","14":"tag-pornography","15":"tag-sentenced","16":"tag-viewing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n