Tokyo woman arrested on suspicion of STI test fraud

Tokyo police have arrested a 28-year-old woman on suspicion of deceiving a man she met on a dating app into paying approximately 300,000 for sexually transmitted infection tests. The suspect, Misaki Watanabe, denies the charges. According to police, Watanabe and the victim, a man in his 20s, became acquainted through the app in mid-March. Watanabe suggested that the two of them undergo STI testing before engaging in sexual relations and asked the man to pay. On the evening of March 21, Watanabe met the man in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward and allegedly convinced him to lend her the money for the tests.