{
  "id": 18417560,
  "title": "How Japan’s 660 most wanted stay hidden: slums, day labour and forged IDs",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/06/how-japans-660-most-wanted-stay-hidden-slums-day-labour-and-forged-ids",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-06T01:30:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3373382/how-japans-660-most-wanted-stay-hidden-slums-day-labour-and-forged-ids"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A month-long police campaign in Japan to track down hundreds of suspects sought over the nation’s most notorious crimes, some dating back decades, underscores what analysts describe as the surprising ease with which individuals can vanish, even in the country’s highly bureaucratic society. The nationwide drive, officially designated the “Month for Strengthening Investigations into Wanted…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}