What do you mean they all don’t look the same?

Posted on October 30, 2009
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This one goes out to the Cosmic Castle crew.

There are far more people than need to be that would like to just wake up one morning and be Japanese. They’re not turning Japanese, mind you, unless they actually are. Apparently some people are not beyond trying, though: a Japanese man and a Filipino woman have recently been arrested for filing a false birth report claiming that a baby was theirs in order to gain Japanese nationality status for it.

Michio Uchino, 55, and Marissa Floures Ito, 31, allegedly filed a false birth report with the Ushiku municipal government office in Ibaraki Prefecture in April that says the boy was Uchino’s, the police said.

In August, the two also filed a false application with the Justice Ministry seeking the boy’s Japanese nationality, according to the police.

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Ito has told investigators that she thought she could continue to stay and work in Japan if Japanese nationality is granted to her baby, the police said. Ito has given several hundred thousand yen to Uchino, with whom she got acquainted through a friend.

Yikes. Probably doesn’t feel so hot to be caught red handed, huh. How embarrassing. And unintentionally racist!

Written by Chris "Chugs" Taylor