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Japan
Capital city —
Tokyo
Country population
126,000,052
i
2018
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
41
i
07/2018
/ ICPR
Type of government
constitutional monarchy
Human Development Index
0.909
19/188
i
UNDP
Homicide rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
2
Name of authority in charge of the prison…
Ministry of Justice
Total number of prisoners
51,805
i
2018
/
ICPR
Average length of imprisonment (in months)
36
i
2014
/ Center for Prisoners’ Rights and Japanese Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA)
Prison density
66.8 %
i
31/12/2014
/ ICPR
Total number of prison facilities
188
An NPM has been established
no
Number and percentage of female prisoners
8.3 %
i
31/07/2018
/ ICPR
Incarcerated minors
0.04 %
i
2014
/ ICPR
Untried prisoners
10.8 %
i
2018
/
ICPR
Death penalty is abolished
no
+
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Year
2019
Introduction
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CPR’s reports
The JFBA’s recent reports to UN bodies are available at:
•
ICCPR
• CAT,
here
and
here
•
UPR
Institutions
Ministry of Justice
Judicial system in Japan (in English)
Other resources
Kazuichi Hanawa,
Doing time
, 2005 : it is a comic strip of life in a Japanese prison.
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