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Japan Times
18 hours ago
- Japan Times
Tokyo police's undercover probe reveals 'dark' part-time job suspect
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department said Monday that its undercover investigation identified last month a yami baito "dark" part-time job suspect. It was the first time for police to detect a suspect under the investigation method introduced in January. The MPD's First Criminal Investigation Division said the identified person is suspected of playing a part in an attempted scam case in the greater Tokyo area. The probe also uncovered the target of the yami baito job ring and prevented any actual damage from occurring. The division declined to say when and where the suspect was detected and who the person is, as well as what the suspect was doing as a member of the ring and whether an arrest was made. Only limited information on the suspect was made available to the public because the police need to hide their methods from the group and secure investigators' safety, they said. Undercover investigations, in which officers disguise themselves as applicants for part-time jobs posted on social media by anonymous crime rings, are designed to crack down on robberies and specific types of fraud committed by the fluid crime rings, such as phone fraud and online investment and romance scams. In January, the National Police Agency released guidelines allowing undercover officers to send fake identification documents and photos to crime groups to obtain information on planned crimes from those acting as commanders and arrest yami baito part-timers before they carry out the crimes.
Japan Times
27-05-2025
- Japan Times
Osaka police arrest two men in ¥100 million home burglary
Two men have been arrested on suspicion of stealing a safe containing roughly ¥100 million ($702,500) from a company president's home in Osaka Prefecture last year, in a case authorities believe may be linked to yami baito, or shady part-time jobs, according to media reports. Jo Ochiai, 23, and Takeshi Tamura, 34 — both unemployed and without fixed addresses — were detained on theft and related charges, NHK and other media reported Monday, quoting the Osaka Prefectural Police. The burglary took place in late August last year at the home of a woman in the city of Sayama, Osaka Prefecture. According to reports, the woman left her residence for about an hour to have lunch, locking only an inner door for ventilation while leaving the outer door unlocked. When she returned, the inner door's lock had been tampered with and a safe was missing. The stolen safe reportedly contained about ¥100 million in cash and six commemorative coins. Investigators believe the suspects may have had advance knowledge of both the cash and the location of a spare key inside the home, MBS News reported. Roughly a month after the burglary, Ochiai was arrested in the city of Osaka for a separate hit-and-run incident. During that arrest, officers discovered approximately ¥21 million in cash in his vehicle — with ¥1 million and ¥10 million bundles wrapped in paper bands — believed to be proceeds from the burglary, the report said. Police later identified Tamura as the second suspect through a review of surveillance footage from the vicinity of the Sayama crime scene. Investigators used a relay-style analysis of multiple security cameras to track the suspects' vehicle and movements. Tamura, who was out on bail for a separate theft case at the time, was arrested and charged with violating the code of criminal procedure for failing to return to his court-ordered residence. According to MBS, both men have past indictments for theft involving different accomplices, strengthening police suspicions that they were recruited through a yami baito opportunity. Authorities say such schemes are increasingly associated with decentralized criminal structures known as tokuryū, or 'anonymous and fluid' criminal groups that recruit accomplices on an ad hoc basis through illicit online job postings.
