Overview

• Fukuoka Prefectural Police on Oct. 13 arrested Masahito Kondo, 66, of Umi Town on suspicion of using a forged official document, and he has admitted to the allegation.
• Investigators say he applied in January and submitted a copy of a junior-high teaching license bearing his name but another person’s license number, leading to his April hire as a fiscal-year appointee.
• Officers searched his home on Oct. 13 and plan to examine whether to add a charge of forging an official document based on seized materials.
• Investigative sources report he previously worked in Saitama, Gunma and Yamaguchi while his teaching license had expired.
• The school contacted police after a September parent complaint prompted a check of his credentials, and investigative records indicate his license had been lost in 2005 and again in 2012.