Fraud committed by older adults has evolved into murder-robberies committed by teenagers, as the foot soldiers hired by quasi-gangster groups known as 迟辞办耻谤测ū have become younger over the years.
The most recent murder-robbery case in Tochigi Prefecture has received attention for the fact that all four of the intruders were 16-year-old high school boys. But it is just one of many, with another major incident being the robbery at a luxury watch shop in Tokyo’s ritzy Ginza district in 2023, which was committed by teens between the ages of 16 and 19.
And the link between the perpetrators’ ages and the nature of the crimes may be causal.
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