Japan's prison system reflects the growing challenges faced by its elderly population. With many elderly women turning to crime for survival, prisons like Tochigi Women's Prison offer stability ...

But this isn’t a nursing home – it’s Japan’s largest women’s prison. The population here reflects the aging society outside, and the pervasive problem of loneliness that guards say is so ...

Even by the melancholy standards of most Japanese poetry, they are unusually poignant, and with reason: Shima, 27, is a condemned murderer awaiting execution in a Tokyo prison. Shima’s ...

This provides a legal foundation for flexibly combining labor and educational programs for prisoners. Japan’s choeki penalty, which mandates prison labor, has been criticized internationally.