Around noon on Aug. 13, in Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture, a local apartment manager notified the police that a ¡°suspicious foreigner¡± was hanging around the nearby JR train station.
Police officers duly descended upon someone described by the Asahi Shimbun as a ¡°20-year-old male who came from the Philippines with a Japanese passport.¡±
When asked what he was doing, he said he was meeting friends. When asked for his passport, he said he didn¡¯t have it on him. At this point, he would no doubt have tried to explain his dual citizenship ¨D something the police claim they only confirmed much later through an interpreter.
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