Indonesian used Japanese passport to illegally enter Japan

A TBS news clip about an illegally immigrant from Indonesia arrested in Nagano prefecture:

Two Japanese men who helped the Indonesian man fraudulently apply for/renew a passport under a Japanese name have also been arrested. The Indonesian man had been fraudulently using a Japanese passport to enter and leave the country since 1999, and since 2004 he had been using the passport to visit Indonesia about twice a year.

When asked for to comment about the man’s appearance, police said “from a distance, he kind of looks like a Japanese person.”

With Japanese airports only scanning the finger prints of those without Japanese passports, it should not shock anyone that some illegal immigrants have been attempting to enter the country using Japanese passports.

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Simon

Interesting that the third guy was identified as 日本人の男 rather than by his name. The second guy appears to be Japanese and was identified by his name – who is number 3?
The Overthinker

“…it should not shock anyone that some illegal immigrants have been attempting to enter the country using Japanese passports.”

Not shock anyone except the geniuses who devised this scheme.
onceuponatime

and it doesn`t seem to get through to people here that the JAPANESE are the engineers of these scams. they should be fingerprinted as well. i am sure the make mega-money helping this guy and who knows how many others. but no – the foreigner gets the headlines.

helical

If you could come up with a simple and effective blanket solution that could check for assisting illegal entry, I’m sure some people would like to hear your idea. And I’m half-serious too.

onceuponatime

fingerprint one and all, coming and going – japanese included. that way they would come up with false passports, yakuza and the like.

kimsei

I think they have nobody to blame but themselves in this case. Why are they leaving entering the country? What did they think was going to happen eventually? That is just stupid. No sympathy from me what so ever. Moving along.
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