Japan must bolster digital education to combat ‘shady job’ crime wave

Japan must bolster digital education to combat 'shady job' crime wave Japan must bolster digital education to combat 'shady job' crime wave

Will Fee is a researcher at the Tokyo-based Yuri Group. He is the lead writer of the GxxD series of reports, which explore the intersection between digitalization and green energy in Japan.

A love of the high life landed him with debts he couldn’t manage. An interior designer by day, he decided to earn a bit of extra cash with a side hustle. The unnamed man in his 20s, talking to Japan’s public service broadcaster NHK from a jail cell, said it all began with a simple search on social media platform X for “jobs that pay well.”