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Jimen-shi
Sekisui House , the industry-leading company of house maker construction company in Japan, was swindled by a jimen-shi this spring.A 'Jimen-shi' is a master of land fraud. 'Jimen' means ground, 'shi' means a man or a master in Japanese.
A Jimen-shi sells other person's people's land pretending to be the owner of the land.
The press is telling says/reports/say/report that the company have/has been defrauded by jimen-shi.
I'm interested in the/this news because they say the trick of the fraud/fraudster is elaborate and the scam looks like it's from movies.
Hello Yoshi! Below, I'll explain my corrections for you. First off, let me say I think this is a very interesting text with an interesting topic as well! I hope my corrections are useful to you. I think it's also important for me to say that these are all corrections for small things, it was very easy to read and understand your text, so I think you did very well!
*I assume the fraud was committed by 1 person. Therefore, I added 'a' in the sentence.
*If you talk about a word, for example when explaining the definition, it is common practice to use apostrophes.
*In this sentence, I would use 'people' instead of 'person', because a jimen-shi sells the land of more than one person. Also, in this sentence, I added 'to be'. In English, some verbs go together with other verbs.
*In this sentence, you are stating a fact. If you state a fact that is true now, for example, "I live in London", you use the present simple. You see that I gave 2 possible verbs: saying and reporting, both are good. I also gave 2 forms, singular and plural. This is because 'the press' can be considered singular (one entity) or plural (lots of journalists). This is called a compound noun. In American English, compound nouns are usually considered singular (the press reports) but in British English they are usually plural (the press report). I'm giving you both alternatives, I don't know if you have preference for British or American English. :)
*This is a correct sentence, so this is only a suggestion. If you say you are interested in the news, it means news in general is interesting to you. If you say you are interested in this news, it means this particular thing is interesting. I added the word 'fraudster': a person who commits fraud.
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