Japan police inspect Yahoo office in child porn case

TOKYO: Police on Monday inspected the Tokyo office of Japan's top Internet portal Yahoo Japan Corporation in connection with the alleged sale of child pornography videos by a man using the company's Web site. The inspection was part of an effort to collect information to bring charges against 38-year-old Shinichi Hori, a dance school operator in Kurume on the southern island of Kyushu, arrested this month for allegedly selling the videos through Yahoo's auction site.

Hori had allegedly used the web site to advertise the videos for three months starting from June, police said. Officials at Yahoo Japan could not be reached to comment.

Kyodo news agency quoted Hori as telling investigators that he had sold the videos to some 300 people through the auction site.

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