A man named Hyo Yamasawa (27) from Yamagata City was sentenced to one year in prison for violating the Employment Security Act. In June 2026, he used an app to recruit two acquaintances to break into a house in Tendo City and steal valuables, thus becoming an actual burglar. At the sentencing hearing on the 13th, Judge Akiyuki Tanaka of the Yamagata District Court stated that "the defendant has a criminal record, and most of his previous convict…
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A man named Hyo Yamasawa (27) from Yamagata City was sentenced to one year in prison for violating the Employment Security Act. In June 2026, he used an app to recruit two acquaintances to break into a house in Tendo City and steal valuables, thus becoming an actual burglar. At the sentencing hearing on the 13th, Judge Akiyuki Tanaka of the Yamagata District Court stated that "the defendant has a criminal record, and most of his previous convict…