Japan is playing catch-up in the fight to protect its citizens from having their private information accessed and used against them in the internet's darkest corners.Criminals are increasingly using the so-called darknet to engage in illegal activities involving drugs, firearms and cyberattack-linked software, and Japanese people are far from immune from their illicit efforts.Dark websites, which for the most part are not used for illicit purposes, are those that are difficult for authorities to monitor because they are encrypted or have layers of network protection that make it near imposs…READ FULL ARTICLE