The Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau in March confiscated forgeries of graduation certificates from Kyoto-based Ritsumeikan University during a search of a Tokyo apartment, bureau officials said Tuesday.
The bureau conducted searches at various locations between March 11 and 19, including at an apartment in Sumida Ward, and detained seven people from China and Malaysia at a bureau facility on suspicion of violating the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Law, they said.
The forged certificates are believed to have been printed after scanning and processing an authentic graduation certificate. They had blank spaces for names and birthdays, the officials said.