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   It's always comforting when people working for the public good exhibit
   resourcefulness.
   Unless they're cheating. The Mainichi [1]reports that a fireman in
   Aichi Prefecture, unsatisfied with the number of fires and attendant
   chances to demonstrate heroism, started lighting his own:

     Since about November last year, Okazaki and neighboring Toyokawa
     have been the sites of around 40 forest fires all started under
     suspicious circumstances.
     Umemura had been a member of his local fire brigade since April
     2003. Of the roughly 40 fires believed to have resulted from arson,
     Umemura went out to fight the fire on 18 occasions.
     Police said after Uemura set the fires using his cigarette and
     match contraption, he would return to his home then go back to the
     scene of the blaze and help put it out.
     But police began to suspect something was amiss when Umemura kept
     finding the device that had caused the blazes and called him in for
     questioning, where he admitted to setting the fires.

   The article in the Japanese edition further [2]states that he wrote
   about the fires on his blog--not that he was a dummy and revealed his
   role in starting them, but that he described the occurrence of the
   fires and his participation in putting out and investigating them.
   There's also [3]this item in the Asahi, which begins, most
   comfortingly, as follows:

     The recent case of university physicians cheating on their
     qualifications for certification exams was not an isolated
     incident.
     Six physicians at Tokyo Medical University were also punished last
     year by a medical society for forging treatment papers needed to
     qualify for an internist certification exam, sources said Friday.
     The revelation follows the case at Showa University's School of
     Medicine, in which five doctors were found to have padded treatment
     records to qualify for an internist certification exam.

   The doctors in question padded their own treatment records with files
   on patients actually treated in a different department.

References

   1. http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20071208p2a00m0na017000c.html
   2. http://mainichi.jp/select/jiken/news/20071208k0000e040062000c.html
   3. http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200712080100.html