A brazen, amateurish Tokyo heist has highlighted a rising trend as Japan's gangs lure desperate youth into crime.
— When three men armed with crowbars ransacked a luxury watch shop in broad daylight in Tokyo's posh Ginza shopping district this week, onlookers stood by and watched the heist play out in baffled amazement.
Police officers conduct investigations at the crime scene following the robbery of a luxury watch store in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district, May 8, 2023.Local networks said the hapless thieves, pursued by at least four patrol cars, likely drove right past the imposing National Police Agency headquarters and the country's parliament.
University of Shizuoka professor Hiroshi Tsutomi told the newspaper the youths"apparently feared their ringleader more than the threat of arrest." Rising poverty coupled with the ease of online recruiting, he said, was making young people easy marks to serve as"disposable" tools for experienced organized crime groups.
An image from video shows the van used as a getaway vehicle by four suspects in the brazen robbery of a luxury watch store in Tokyo, Japan's Ginza shopping district on May 8, 2023.When reporters from the Mainichi newspaper applied for yami-baito jobs, they were immediately directed to communicate via the encrypted Telegram app, and offered work as phone scammers earning more than $20,000 a month.
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