Japan

Capital city — Tokyo

Country population
126,942,000
i
01/08/2015
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
47
i
31/12/2014
Type of government
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 authority in charge of the prison…
Ministry of Justice
Total number of prisoners
60,486
i
31/12/2014
Average length of imprisonment (in months)
36
i
2014
/ Center for Prisoners’ Rights and Japanese Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA)
Prison density
67.1 %
i
2014
/ ICPR
Total number of prison facilities
188
An NPM has been established
no
Number and percentage of female prisoners
8.3 %
i
2014
/ ICPR
Incarcerated minors
4.8 %
i
2014
/ ICPR
Untried prisoners
11.3 %
i
2014
/ ICPR
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.