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

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

Taking medications under supervision and being helped with basic daily activities like eating or bathing. What might sound like a nursing home is really Tochigi Women’s Prison located in Tokyo. There, ...

In 2022, more than 80% of elderly female inmates nationwide were in jail for stealing, according to government figures. Some do it for survival – 20% of people aged over 65 in Japan live in ...

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

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 acute for ...

The number of people in the labor force in Japan who are 15 and older reached an all-time high for the second year in a row, according to the internal affairs ministry's Labor Force Survey ...