A Japanese teenager forced to engage in fraud in Myanmar has said that there were close to 10 Japanese people other than himself at a criminal group's base in the country, Thai military sources ...

Myanmar has allegedly become a hub for fraud rings operated by Chinese crime syndicates and others. Japanese high school students are among the many foreigners forced to work on scams there.

There are signs this is already happening. While in Japan, the officials exchanged ideas with a bipartisan coalition of Diet members supporting Myanmar's democratization. That was followed by ...