Society
A Quarantine Virus Scare, a Dropped Fraud Case, and Prison Comforts
Three unrelated cases surfaced around the same time—foot-and-mouth virus found in meat carried through New Chitose Airport, a Chinese man's 5-million-yen fraud case dropped without charges, and a viral clip about how foreign inmates are treated—and got lumped together as evidence of leniency at the border, in the courts, and in prisons. The facts behind each case, however, are far from settled.