Japan
Japan: ”her present fate is to rot in solitude”
Testimonial
Women
Asia
Death penalty
Japan
C. Hayashi has been visiting his mother on death row for 16 years. He talks about her conditions of detention.
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Japan: surveillance and old age
Interview
Asia
Long-term prisoners
Mental health
Japan
Akaike Kazumasa is a criminologist and specialises in the Japanese prison system.
Rate of imprisonment, working as a prisoner, prisoners’ age: Prison Insider asks him three questions to understand the particularities of the country’s penitentiary system.
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Asia
Material conditions
Japan
Tissue paper and other daily products sold at Osaka Prison are so expensive that inmates mostly cannot purchase them, a situation amounting to a human rights violation, according to local lawyers.
Source — Japan Times
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Asia
Japan
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version
Source — Paris Match
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Asia
Death penalty
Japan
Seven members of a brainwashed doomsday cult were hanged last week in a sterile Japanese execution chamber for carrying out a deadly gas attack in 1995.
The Asian country is one of only two first world democracies, along with the US, who kill their own citizens.
Source — The Sun
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Asia
Death penalty
Violence
Japan
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Les voix du monde
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Asia
Japan
To prevent those with criminal convictions from committing further offenses after leaving correctional facilities, a job magazine for people with a history of crime or delinquency will be distributed at prisons and juvenile training schools nationwide starting mid-July.
Source — The Japan Times
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Women
Asia
Japan
Though the prison population in Japan is remarkably small compared to other countries, there have been increases in recent years among certain demographics. The media is particularly sensitive to elderly inmates. Less remarked upon are female prisoners.
Source — The Japan Times
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Asia
Justice
Japan
Justice Minister Katsutoshi Kaneda has consulted an advisory panel about the possibility of lowering the age of criminal adulthood to 18 from 20, a move critics claim could deprive 18- and 19-year-old offenders of the rehabilitation opportunities guaranteed by the Juvenile Law.
Source — The Japan Times
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Asia
Japan
Justice Minister Katsutoshi Kaneda has consulted an advisory panel about the possibility of lowering the age of criminal adulthood to 18 from 20, a move critics claim could deprive 18- and 19-year-old offenders of the rehabilitation opportunities guaranteed by the Juvenile Law.
Source — The Japan Times
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Asia
Japan
Should prison facilities be friendly to aging inmates or remain punitively hard for criminals?
It is a question that was faced by Asahikawa Prison in Hokkaido, which was remodeled and reopened earlier this year. The three-story, reinforced concrete building has about 500 private cells, each equipped…
Source — The Japan Times
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Asia
Death penalty
Japan
Sorry, this article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Courrier International & Asahi Shimbun
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Asia
Death penalty
Japan
Hangings took place weeks before Japan is due to host the G7 leaders summit.
Human rights campaigners have condemned Japan’s use of the death penalty after two inmates were hanged, bringing the number of executions to 16 since the prime minister, Shinzo Abe, took office in late 2012.
Source — The Guardian
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