By SHIMPACHI YOSHIDA/ Senior Staff Writer
December 30, 2023 at 18:44 JST
An abandoned hotel where 36 Japanese were detained in Manila in December 2019. The group apparently used it as a base to make fraud calls to Japan. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
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