Tokyo police arrested a 21 year-old Chinese man for violating Japanese copyright law. The man, a student at a Japanese vocational school, was taken into custody for selling phony One Piece figurines.
Since February 2011, the man allegedly sold approximately 1,300 fake One Piece figures via online auctions, earning Ā„5 million (US$63,000). The man got the figures from China for the equivalent of a few bucks, and then turned around and sold them online in Japanāsometimes for a couple hundred bucks a pop.
Authorities apparently found 85 knock off One Piece figures in the manās residence, located outside Tokyo.
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(Top photo: ANNnews)
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