OSAKA, July 10 Kyodo The Osaka Re...

OSAKA, July 10 Kyodo

The Osaka Regional Immigration Bureau onward Wednesday raided a plastics company in Higashi Osaka where six Thai men aged 28 to 36 were taken into custody upon suspicion of overstaying visas, bureau officials said.

The men were later taken to the western Japan immigration center for deportation onward suspicion of overstaying visas.

Of the six, five had proceed to Japan on short-term visas and overstayed for up to 11 years, the officials said, adding that the sixth registered Japan illegally last September with another person's passport.

Ten Thais were raise to be working illegally at the same plastics company and deported last November, the officials added.

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