Japan

Capital city — Tokyo

Country's population
126,942,000
i
01/08/2015
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
47
i
31/12/2014
Nature of the political system
constitutional monarchy
Human Development Index
0.891
(20/188)
i
2014
/ Programme des Nations unies pour le développement.
Homicide rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
2
Name of the authority(ies) in charge of the…
Ministry of Justice
Total number of prisoners
60,486
i
31/12/2014
Average length of detention (in months)
36
i
2014
/ Center for Prisoners’ Rights and Japanese Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA)
Occupancy rate
67.1 %
i
2014
/ ICPR
Total number of penal institutions
188
A NPM has been created
no
Female prisoners
8.3 %
i
2014
/ ICPR
Incarcerated minors
4.8 %
i
2014
/ ICPR
Prisoners in pre-trial detention
11.3 %
i
2014
/ ICPR
The death penalty is abolished
no

Date of the report2015

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.