Yamanashi mayor arrested for fraud in city worker hiring process

Police said Monday they have arrested the mayor of Yamanashi in central Japan for allegedly falsifying the results of a recruitment test last year to aid an applicant for a public service job.Seiki Mochizuki, 70, the first-term mayor of the mountainous city just outside Yamanashi Prefecture's capital Kofu, is suspected of allegedly altering an official document to inflate the score of a prospective city worker in the written part of a hiring examination.According to the city government, the exam process consists of two stages -- a written part in the first and an interview and essay in the …READ FULL ARTICLE