Masanaga Kageyama, a senior official of the Japan Football Association (JFA), has been sentenced to an 18-month suspended jail term and banned from France for 10 years after being caught viewing child sexual abuse images on a plane. The incident occurred during a stopover at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, as reported by French newspaper Le Parisien. Kageyama, who was traveling to the Under-20 World Cup in Chile, admitted to viewing the images but claimed he was unaware of their illegality in France. The flight crew alerted authorities after noticing the explicit content on his laptop in the business class cabin of an Air France flight. Kageyama initially defended the images as ‘art’ and AI-generated. The court also imposed a €5,000 fine and barred him from working with minors. The JFA terminated his contract immediately, labeling the incident ‘unacceptable to the football world.’ JFA Chairman Tsuneyasu Miyamoto apologized for the incident and pledged to strengthen governance and compliance systems. Kageyama, a former professional footballer, has managed teams in Japan, Macau, and Singapore.