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MFA officer who was fined for taking nude photos of male customers in Tokyo bathhouse dismissed
Christopher Sim Siong Chye was a counsellor at the Singapore Embassy in Japan when he committed the offences.PHOTOS: INSTAGRAM, SINGAPORE EMBASSY TOKYO/FACEBOOK
Eileen Ng
UPDATED APR 02, 2025, 07:04 PM
A man who was fined 300,000 yen (S$2,700) in 2024 for secretly filming a boy at a public bath in Tokyo, among other acts of voyeurism, when he was a diplomat, has been dismissed by Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).
Christopher Sim Siong Chye was given the sack on April 2, according to a notice in the government gazette the same day.
Sim, 56, was a counsellor – a diplomatic rank for experienced foreign service officers – at the Singapore Embassy in Japan when he committed the offences there.
On Feb 27, 2024, he was caught using a smartphone to film an undressed male teenager in the men’s changing room of a public bath.
A search of his phone found footage of the boy in the nude, as well as footage of multiple male customers that seemed to have been taken in the bath’s communal changing room.
Japanese national broadcaster NHK reported that the boy was a junior high school student aged 13.
Sim had admitted to investigators then that he also took such photos at other public baths.
