Aspiring Canadian cosplayer living in Tokyo arrested for immigration fraud sham marriage soranews24.com

Approached Japanese man she met at cosplay event and offered to pay him to be her husband for visa purposes.
In 2012, Canadian citizen Shannon Wong came to Japan on a four-year student visa.
The two became acquainted at a cosplay event held in Shinjuku’s Kabukicho district, and Wong later approached Sasaki with a preposition.
Sasaki agreed, and on June 17, 2016, the pair turned in their marriage paperwork at a ward office in Yokohama, two cities south from Tokyo.
On July 11, officers from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s arrested Wong and Sasaki, now 29 and 37 years old, respectively.