Comments on: Japanese Prisons Are Overflowing With Foreign Criminals!

By: lonnie

lonnie — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:51:24 +0000

also what they were teaching them in the prison isnt for the prisoners benfit or for rehabilitation those items are goods for sale some prisoners work making car parts for the major japanese car manufacturers.there are a multitude of goods made by prisoners that they dont want you to know about. those jobs are also forced on the prisoners they dont have a choice its jail with hard labor! if you dont work you get punished!

By: lonnie

lonnie — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:47:06 +0000

i was recently encarcerated in a japanese prison in kanazawa thats the ishikawa prefecture. there were a few foriegners but the majority of them were chinese and korean. and even more mix breeds (half japanese) while i was incarcerated my visa ran out and after my sentencing i was sent to immigration detention which of course was all foriegners.however more than 70% of the inmates were partially japanese ore had japanese wives or children.almost all of them came from jail and almost all of them were there for drugs or stealing for drugs.im not condoning crime but i cant see what good it does to ban me from seeing my children or visiting my wifes relatives. i committed a crime for this i was punished why was i punished twice for 1 crime? after my encarceration was over the punished me again by splitting up my family.

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By: Outside Looking In

Outside Looking In — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:48:59 +0000

So if I ever was to end up like these inmates, what’s the best religion to express my faith in, in order to get meals that are a little better than usual? If you know what food hospitals, universities and other institutions serve here, you’d want to be prepared, too.

By: Nihonjin

Nihonjin — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 06:59:14 +0000

>> the authorities should be building more prisons?
They want to ! But Japan does not have a big land like some other countries, you know. Where in Shutoken they can make a big prisn?

By: lskjdfl;asdjf

lskjdfl;asdjf — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:20:49 +0000

[It doesn’t take an expert to see that foreigners aren’t the folks one should be worrying about in the case of this prison. Maybe instead of inviting the media into prisons so they can make alarmist reports, the authorities should be building more prisons?]

orrrrrrrr, japan could relax its drug laws and eliminate probably half of the people who are in there for drug possession, just for smoking weed or something harmless like that. 550 foreigners in that prison, 110 in there for drugs. that’s a heavy number.

By: the overthinker

the overthinker — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:16:21 +0000

“I forsee race relations in japan deteriorating when the trickle of immigrants turns into a flood. immigrants channeled into and stuck in dangerous, dirty, difficult jobs without anything to aspire to will confirm stereotypes of being lazy and criminal.”

All too likely, I’m afraid. Right now we’re reasonably rare enough, esp outside the main centres, to be associated with “Hollywood” and “America” and such fantasy ideals, no matter how utterly wrong. But bring in too many too poor and too fast and yikes…..

By: the overthinker

the overthinker — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:11:02 +0000

What I want to know is how many of that 17% is there for non-visa-related crimes. Or would those just be deported?

By: the overthinker

the overthinker — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:10:07 +0000

Association with the Eta, the Burakumin?

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:10:47 +0000

ONE Prision has 17% percent

By: Evan

Evan — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:22:58 +0000

The proportion is higher than i would have thought. the zainichi koreans and chinese may account for a big chunk of that.
I forsee race relations in japan deteriorating when the trickle of immigrants turns into a flood. immigrants channeled into and stuck in dangerous, dirty, difficult jobs without anything to aspire to will confirm stereotypes of being lazy and criminal. japan has built a socioeconomic system that may become similar to the ancient greeks – a minority of citizens with wealth and affluence and a majority of noncitizen shitkickers. if they cant allow ethnic japanese brazilians into the fold of national identity, imagine ghettos of south-east asian muslims…

By: epicurus

epicurus — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 03:11:40 +0000

When they say gaijin account for 17% of prisoners, does that include zainichi? If so, it would be a simple explanation for why such a large percentage of prisoners are ‘foreign’, especially considering the over representation of zainichi amongst yakuza groups.

By: Goddess Carlie

Goddess Carlie — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:02:04 +0000

It’s just the same sort of crap they put on TV here on “current affairs” shows. They play on public fears, that’s all.

By: Syd

Syd — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:39:39 +0000

I agree with KokuRyo. They made it “seem” as if it were full with gaijin. It could have been the same black/white men filmed in three different places.

Anyways, it looks like their cell is bigger and nicer than my apartment…

In addition, it would be more difficult for a gaijin to get away with something in Japan… they profile gaijins, therefore, they catch more. Especially with creating a media event over superfluous junk like this, it makes a negative stereotype that just perpetuate the problem.

By: madne0

madne0 — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:13:05 +0000

No need to act like an asshole. Even if the proportion stayed the same in the last 10 years, 17% would still be a huge number.
Besides, i read that wrong. The 17% figure is only for that particular prison, not the entire prison system. So this discussion is worthless.

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Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:30:11 +0000

[...] The following is from Japan Probe. This afternoon’s RealTime News program had a special report on growing number of foreigners in Japanese prisons, which is apparently a new problem for Japan. They sent a team to Tokyo’s largest prison to get a first hand look at the large number of foreign prisoners there. The prison usually never allows the media to film its interior, but they made a special exception in this case. Here are some highlights from the segment:[link] [...]

By: noahT

noahT — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:18:31 +0000

[first part of comment deleted by admin: act like grown-ups, ok? Name-calling is not allowed. ] The proportion of Japanese nationals to gaijin has stayed the same for the last 10 years.

By: KokuRyu

KokuRyu — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:18:06 +0000

They certainly made it seem like the prison was filled with foreigners.

What I find more interesting is the fact leatherworking is typically the most common form of rehabilitation in prisons in Japan. It’s a useless skill, so why teach it exclusively?

By: Liberal Japan » Blog Archive » At Japan Probe — “Japanese Prisons Are Overflowing With Foreign Criminals!”

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:38:41 +0000

[...] Japan Probe has put up a video of a news segment about at Tokyo prison. The segment claims that the foreign population at the prison in increasing to the point of becoming problematic, however a graph given in the program shows this clearly to be false; link. [...]

By: madne0

madne0 — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:20:30 +0000

The foreign population in Japan is what? 2% tops? If 17% of prisoners are foreign, then yes, it’s a problem.