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Things Japanese: A collection of short stories (Volume 1)(Paperback)

A collection of short stories that celebrates contemporary writing on things Japanese. These stories will warm your heart, leave you feeling fuzzy and warm, and crave things Japanese. The stories are rooted in direct experience of things Japanese that explore relationships, perceptions, attitudes, culture, identity, and desire. Theses stories confirm that Japan continues to fascinate and touch people on many levels.

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False Fingerprints – Chinese Woman Switched Her Prints to Enter Japan

Submitted By: Kyle Reynolds 9 December 2009 753 views One Comment

by fazen

A Chinese woman has been arrested on suspicion of illegally entering Japan by falsifying her fingerprints to deceive a biometric recognition system in violation of the immigration law, police said Monday.

Lin Rong, 27, is believed to have swapped the skin of the fingers on her right and left hands, according to the police. She has told investigators she spent some 1.3 million yen to undergo the surgery in China, they said.

She is suspected of passing through immigration control with a different person’s passport in December last year, the police said.

She was indicted last month for submitting a false registration of marriage with a Japanese man, prompting the police to further investigate and find that she had been deported for overstaying in 2007.