Japanese man arrested after pretending to be foreigner while trying to rob convenience store

Japanese man arrested after pretending to be foreigner while trying to rob convenience store

Attempt to pass himself off as a foreigner reveals possible link to another crime too. In the early morning hours of August 18, at around 2:30 a.m., a lone man walked into the Oizumi Yoshida branch of Japanese convenience store chain Lawson in the town of Oizumi, Gunma Prefecture. The only other person in the store at the time was the branch’s 50-something year-old manager, who was working the register. ▼ The store where the incident took place …