The rooms are filled with elderly residents, their hands wrinkled and backs bent. They shuffle slowly down the corridors, ...

In Japan, a growing number of elderly individuals are deliberately committing crimes to secure a place in prison, ...

An 81-year-old Japanese woman, Akiyo, commits crimes intentionally to avoid loneliness and receive stable living conditions ...

Shoplifting is the most common crime among elderly women in Japan. In 2022, over 80% of elderly female inmates were jailed ...

Akiyo was lodged in Tochigi Women's Prison, Japan's largest women's prison, located north of Tokyo. It houses nearly 500 ...

Akiyo deliberately committed crimes to secure a place in prison, where she could live for free after being abandoned by her ...

In a troubling reflection of Japan's aging population crisis, an 81-year-old woman named Akiyo resorted to theft to secure a ...

A surge of elders in Japan are getting imprisoned and are happy to find solace and companionship in prison as their families ...