Romance Scam and Legal Interpreting/Translation
Mouri, Masako (2024) — IICAH Official Conference Proceedings
Type:
Proceedings Article
Country:
Japan
Synopsis (AI-Generated)
This practitioner-oriented descriptive conference paper draws on the author's legal interpreting and translation experience in Japanese police, prosecution, and court settings. It presents three real Japan-related romance-scam cases, including a detailed celebrity-impersonation case, and discusses interrogation and interpreting challenges. The case victim reportedly transferred 75 million yen over three years and five months. The victim sold artwork and luxury goods and borrowed money from friends and children in response to the offender's demands. The paper reports that reliable romance-scam information is difficult to collect because offenders conceal their identities and communicate via SNS and AI-generated content.
Identified Gaps (AI-Generated)
Japanese official statistics combine romance and investment scams within general fraud, preventing exact romance-scam counts and identification of crime characteristics and consequences. The paper also states that interrogation procedures and accumulated knowledge specific to romance scams remain limited, while interpreters commonly receive little case information before questioning.
Methods (AI-Generated)
A practitioner-oriented descriptive conference paper drawing on the author’s legal interpreting and translation experience in Japanese police, prosecution, and court settings. It presents three real Japan-related romance-scam cases, including a detailed celebrity-impersonation case, and discusses interrogation and interpreting challenges. No systematic sampling, data collection protocol, or formal analysis is reported.
Limitations (AI-Generated)
The paper reports that reliable romance-scam information is difficult to collect because offenders conceal their identities and communicate via SNS and AI-generated content. Official Japanese data aggregate romance scams with other fraud, obstructing exact case counts. The article also provides no systematic case-selection criteria, interview data, or quantitative analysis, limiting generalizability.
Future Work (AI-Generated)
Accumulate and classify romance-scam knowledge and data separately from general fraud in Japan. Clarify current conditions, criminal patterns, and consequences to support faster and better-informed interrogation and improve legal interpreters’ working conditions.
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