Japanese women struggling with loneliness and financial issues commit petite crimes to go to prison, where they find ...

Despairing grandmother who lives on meagre pension says she would rather take ‘stability’ of prison than life on outside.

Elder abuse by care workers at nursing facilities reached an all-time ... data by collecting reports from local governments across Japan, which it has done every year since fiscal 2006.

Across Japan, the number of prisoners aged ... with nursing qualifications to provide nursing care” for other elderly prisoners, Megumi said. Yoko, the 51-year-old inmate, is one such caregiver ...