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Back in 1899, Japan enacted a statute known as the "Law to provide assistance to sick and dead travelers." This law, which is still on the books, requires the nation's prefectures, cities, towns and other local government functions to extend food, shelter or other forms of assistance to anyone in transit who might suffer some misfortune.
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The cop was referring to Kenji Kodama, (35, unemployed, of no fixed address) and his common-law wife Yuki Okuno, 25, whose honeymoon came to an abrupt halt when they were arrested in Gose. Determined to exploit the loopholes in the 1899 law, the two had approached dozens of local government offices to request handouts of between 500 to 1,500 yen for their "train fare home."

"From September onwards, they had driven all the way from Kanto to Kyushu," the cop adds.
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It was in Gose that a sharp-eyed official noticed that the couple to whom it had just lent "train fare" was driving away in a compact car.

Now in custody, the couple face prosecution for some 100 acts of fraud during their two-month sojourn.

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Japan Today