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Japanese police on Tuesday arrested two men for allegedly swindling a 47-year-old woman out of 36.5 million yen ($242,000) under a false promise of marriage, suspecting she lost over 100 million yen in total. Shuichi Ejiri, 51, and Yuki Takeda, 32, who had already been arrested earlier in the month on a separate forgery charge, are suspected of conspiring to defraud the victim, a resident of Aichi Prefecture in central Japan, according to the prefectural police. Ejiri, who pretended to run a business and earn 50 million yen a year, became acquainted with the woman through a matchmaking app in …

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