http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=70021"Hostess" must be Japanese for hooker.
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TOKYO — At least eight people arriving in Japan from South Korea have used fake fingerprints to evade the biometric checks at immigration control and enter the country illegally since January 2008, it has been learned.
In May last year, two South Korean hostesses at a South Korean bar in Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture, skipped work for three days with no word to their 43-year-old manager. When the manager demanded they explain, the two hostesses said, "We're very sorry," and revealed they were in this country illegally.
At the time, immigration authorities were rounding up illegal residents around the women one after another, and they could not go to work for fear of being caught.
The two had previously been deported from Japan to South Korea in January 2008 because their visas had expired, and their fingerprints were registered in a database of the Justice Ministry's Immigration Bureau.
However, they both illegally re-entered the country through Haneda Airport, one woman returning four months later and the other nine months later.
They used passports under other people's names and special tapes made of silicone that were pasted over the tips of their forefingers to change their fingerprints.
The two South Korean bar hostesses turned themselves in to the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau in December, about six months after they confessed their illegal residence to their employer. They were arrested in January by the Kanagawa prefectural police and deported to South Korea in March.
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