3 arrested over fake marriage
Fuji TV/Mainichi make national news out of the arrest of a factory worker who faked a marriage to stay in Japan:
Abigale Mokonnen W/Gebrael, a 38-year-old female part-time worker of Ethiopian nationality, and two other suspects are accused of submitting a bogus marriage report.
The Ethiopian woman living in Nishitokyo, Tokyo, asked a male acquaintance to look for a fictitious marriage partner in order to obtain residential status, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
She was subsequently introduced to a man who pretended to be her spouse when they filed the fake marriage report. The man was among the three who were arrested.
