A rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-Internet-fame story. Everyone probably remembers the incident earlier this year in which a single man was accidentally issued an amount of COVID-19 relief money equal to that intended for every citizen of Abu Town, Yamaguchi Prefecture. After discovering the 46.3 million yen (US$345,000) in his bank account, Sho Taguchi very quickly began placing bets … Continue reading Man who took entire town’s COVID-19 money now out of jail and turning life around