Police turned over to prosecutors Monday their case of illegal entry against Jose Manuel Torres Yake, a 33-year-old Peruvian man charged with the November murder of a 7-year-old girl in Hiroshima.
Torres Yake is suspected of obtaining a fake passport bearing the name Juan Carlos Pizarro Yagi and a fictitious date of birth from a broker, entering Japan on April 18, 2004, and illegally staying in the country, according to police.
He has admitted paying $4,000 for the bogus passport one or two months before leaving Peru to come to Japan to make money, police said.
He said he used the fake name because he could otherwise not have left Peru as he had illegally avoided compulsory military service, they said.
Torres Yake was charged in December with molesting and strangling the girl and leaving her corpse in a box in a vacant lot in Hiroshima on Nov. 22.