Why youth have become central to <i>‘tokuryū’</i> crimes
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The easy recruitment of younger people online has driven a shift from fraud to robbery, sometimes leading to murder.
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Japan Times · Yukana Inoue
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With the proliferation of smartphones and growth of an internet-savvy generation, the application pool for dodgy jobs posted on social media or apps like Timee — which matches companies with job-seekers for one-off jobs — began to skew younger. | REUTERS
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