Gangs Use Adult Adoption For Passports & Loans

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Yomiuri: Gang uses adoption to get passports, loans
Members of a crime organization are suspected of running an "adoption business" to help foreigners get Japanese passports and heavy debtors to illicitly obtain new loans, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. According to the Kanagawa prefectural police, 197 adoptions involving 60 men and women -- in their 30s to 60s -- were performed in Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture between February 2001 and August 2007. One person was found to have been involved in 11 adoptions. According to police sources, a 39-year-old South Korean woman was arrested in July last year on suspicion of possessing a passport under the name of a 34-year-old Japanese woman, a violation of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Law. The South Korean woman, who was in Japan illegally, was later deported.

The Japanese woman admitted she was involved in obtaining the passport, the police sources said. "I have a lot of debt, so I had to change my surname so I could take out a new loan and for other reasons," she was quoted as saying. "I've been involved in nine adoptions so far. My adoptive fathers have been people involved with a gang, and some have been total strangers to me." The woman's adoptive fathers have also adopted other people, she reportedly said. "I gave my personal seal registration card and health insurance card to somebody involved with the gang, and they gave me 30,000 yen in return. I have no idea who is using a passport with my name on it," she was quoted as saying.

The South Korean woman was quoted as telling the police: "I asked a gang member I met at the restaurant where I was working for help. I paid him 1.5 million yen to make me a passport." The police believe the scheme was based on the fact that a person's name would change after being adopted. Members of the organization could illegally obtain passports and sell them, thereby making illicit gains.

Adoption is made possible by the Family Registration Law and the Civil Code, which allow people to legally enter a parent-child relationship, regardless of biological relationship. When adopting a minor, permission from a family court is required. But in the case of an adult, all that is needed is an application form with the signatures and seals of the adoptive parent, child to be adopted and witnesses, and copies of their family registers. There is no legal limitation on the number of adoptions one can perform.

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Why do Japan's businesses lack the innovative techniques its gangsters possess in bucketloads?

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Why do Japan's businesses lack the innovative techniques its gangsters possess in bucketloads?

Because Japanese businesses do it by business bureaucracy.

Yakuza are dictatorships as long as another's area is respected.