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.