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Member of Boy Band “Ae! Group” Arrested on Public Indecency Charge

Tokyo police have arrested Keita Richard Kusama, a 29-year-old member of boy band "Ae! Group" on a public indecency charge. Kusama is suspected of exposing his lower body around the entrance of a building in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward at around 5:40 a.m. on Saturday. He is believed to have been drunk at the time.  Ae! Group is a five-member idol group managed by Starto Entertainment Inc., which manages performers who belonged to now-defunct Johnny & Associates Inc.

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by Michael Gillan Peckitt
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From Jiji

October 5 2025

TOKYO – Tokyo police have arrested Keita Richard Kusama, a 29-year-old member of boy band “Ae! Group” on a public indecency charge. 

Kusama is suspected of exposing his lower body around the entrance of a building in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward at around 5:40 a.m. on Saturday. He is believed to have been drunk at the time.

He was arrested after a passerby witnessed the scene and reported it to the police, according to police sources.

Ae! Group is a five-member idol group managed by Starto Entertainment Inc., which manages performers who belonged to now-defunct Johnny & Associates Inc.

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