diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index ba657ddbe..c3592679f 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1778,6 +1778,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "rustyline",
  "schannel",
  "serde",
+ "serde_json",
  "sha-1",
  "sha2",
  "sha3",
diff --git a/Lib/json/__init__.py b/Lib/json/__init__.py
index 1ba8b48bd..4b7d8897b 100644
--- a/Lib/json/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/json/__init__.py
@@ -107,6 +107,11 @@ from .decoder import JSONDecoder, JSONDecodeError
 from .encoder import JSONEncoder
 import codecs
 
+_use_serde_json = False
+def use_serde_json(x=True):
+    global _use_serde_json
+    _use_serde_json = x
+
 _default_encoder = JSONEncoder(
     skipkeys=False,
     ensure_ascii=True,
@@ -354,6 +359,13 @@ def loads(s, *, cls=None, object_hook=None, parse_float=None,
     if (cls is None and object_hook is None and
             parse_int is None and parse_float is None and
             parse_constant is None and object_pairs_hook is None and not kw):
+        if _use_serde_json:
+            try:
+                import _serde_json
+            except ImportError:
+                pass
+            else:
+                return _serde_json.decode(s)
         return _default_decoder.decode(s)
     if cls is None:
         cls = JSONDecoder
diff --git a/Lib/json/decoder.py b/Lib/json/decoder.py
index d7d824454..239bacdb0 100644
--- a/Lib/json/decoder.py
+++ b/Lib/json/decoder.py
@@ -27,6 +27,21 @@ class JSONDecodeError(ValueError):
     colno: The column corresponding to pos
 
     """
+    # RUSTPYTHON SPECIFIC
+    @classmethod
+    def _from_serde(cls, msg, doc, line, col):
+        pos = 0
+        # 0-indexed
+        line -= 1
+        col -= 1
+        while line > 0:
+            i = doc.index('\n', pos)
+            line -= 1
+            pos = i
+        pos += col
+        return cls(msg, doc, pos)
+
+
     # Note that this exception is used from _json
     def __init__(self, msg, doc, pos):
         lineno = doc.count('\n', 0, pos) + 1
diff --git a/vm/Cargo.toml b/vm/Cargo.toml
index da4b71d46..fa064f298 100644
--- a/vm/Cargo.toml
+++ b/vm/Cargo.toml
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ rustpython-bytecode = { path = "../bytecode", version = "0.1.2" }
 rustpython-jit = { path = "../jit", optional = true, version = "0.1.2" }
 rustpython-pylib = { path = "pylib-crate", optional = true, version = "0.1.0" }
 serde = { version = "1.0.66", features = ["derive"] }
+serde_json = "1.0"
 byteorder = "1.2.6"
 regex = "1"
 rustc_version_runtime = "0.1.*"
diff --git a/vm/src/stdlib/mod.rs b/vm/src/stdlib/mod.rs
index 92ccd44b6..30a981f79 100644
--- a/vm/src/stdlib/mod.rs
+++ b/vm/src/stdlib/mod.rs
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ mod platform;
 mod pystruct;
 mod random;
 mod re;
+mod serde_json;
 #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
 pub mod socket;
 mod string;
@@ -91,6 +92,7 @@ pub fn get_module_inits() -> HashMap<String, StdlibInitFunc> {
         "_platform".to_owned() => Box::new(platform::make_module),
         "regex_crate".to_owned() => Box::new(re::make_module),
         "_random".to_owned() => Box::new(random::make_module),
+        "_serde_json".to_owned() => Box::new(serde_json::make_module),
         "_string".to_owned() => Box::new(string::make_module),
         "_struct".to_owned() => Box::new(pystruct::make_module),
         "time".to_owned() => Box::new(time_module::make_module),
diff --git a/vm/src/stdlib/serde_json.rs b/vm/src/stdlib/serde_json.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..86c28de23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vm/src/stdlib/serde_json.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+pub(crate) use _serde_json::make_module;
+
+#[pymodule]
+mod _serde_json {
+    use crate::common::borrow::BorrowValue;
+    use crate::obj::objstr::PyStrRef;
+    use crate::py_serde;
+    use crate::pyobject::{PyResult, TryFromObject};
+    use crate::VirtualMachine;
+
+    #[pyfunction]
+    fn decode(s: PyStrRef, vm: &VirtualMachine) -> PyResult {
+        let res = (|| -> serde_json::Result<_> {
+            let mut de = serde_json::Deserializer::from_str(s.borrow_value());
+            let res = py_serde::deserialize(vm, &mut de)?;
+            de.end()?;
+            Ok(res)
+        })();
+
+        res.or_else(|err| {
+            let decode_error = vm.try_class("json", "JSONDecodeError")?;
+            let from_serde = vm.get_attribute(decode_error.into_object(), "_from_serde")?;
+            let mut err_msg = err.to_string();
+            let pos = err_msg.rfind(" at line ").unwrap();
+            err_msg.truncate(pos);
+            let decode_error = vm.invoke(
+                &from_serde,
+                vec![
+                    vm.ctx.new_str(err_msg),
+                    s.into_object(),
+                    vm.ctx.new_int(err.line()),
+                    vm.ctx.new_int(err.column()),
+                ],
+            )?;
+            TryFromObject::try_from_object(vm, decode_error)
+        })
+    }
+}