Japan

Capital city — Tokyo

Country population
126,000,052
i
2018
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
41
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07/2018
/ ICPR
Type of government
constitutional monarchy
Human Development Index
0.909
19/188
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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
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2018
/ ICPR
Average length of imprisonment (in months)
36
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2014
/ Center for Prisoners’ Rights and Japanese Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA)
Prison density
66.8 %
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31/12/2014
/ ICPR
Total number of prison facilities
188
An NPM has been established
no
Number and percentage of female prisoners
8.3 %
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31/07/2018
/ ICPR
Incarcerated minors
0.04 %
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2014
/ ICPR
Untried prisoners
10.8 %
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2018
/ ICPR
Death penalty is abolished
no

Year2019

CPR’s reports
The JFBA’s recent reports to UN bodies are available at:
• ICCPR
• CAT, here and here
• UPR

Kazuichi Hanawa, Doing time, 2005 : it is a comic strip of life in a Japanese prison.