Police arrested six people Wednesday on suspicion of arranging bogus marriages to help Chinese nationals stay in Japan to work, police said.
Shosuke Kawano, 58, a suspected former gangster, allegedly arranged at least 60 such bogus marriages. One method involved taking Japanese homeless men to China and having them marry Chinese women, police said.
Investigators suspect that a Chinese human smuggling gang may also be involved in the scheme.
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