Prison life in Japan is very different from many other countries. Find out what it is really like here.
Yuichiro, Baku, Shigaku
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Script
B: Oh, the air outside the jail is very fresh.
A: Are you Kei Odagiri?
B: Yes, I am. Who are you?
A: My name is Yusuke Morishita. I’m a journalist of Tokyo Sports. Do you have some time to talk with me?
B: Yeah, but what do you want to know?
A: I want to ask about your life in this jail. How long had you been in this jail?
B: I entered this jail in 1990, so I had been in about 20 years. I had many trouble in this jail. When I entered the jail, I couldn’t be accustomed to severe life in the jail. In a lot of points, life in the jail is different from ordinary life. We didn’t have freedom, of course. We must do many things according to time. For example, time we wake up and go to bed is exactly set down. We must keep early hours. We cannot go to bed when we feel like sleeping. I woke up at 6:30 and go to bed at 21:00.
A: That’s severe life. How was the room you had been in? The room was small?
B: Yes, the room I had lived in was awfully narrow. 8 people lived in a room whose capacity is 6 people. This is because the crime happens frequently and the jail has to hold more people than it can.
A: Oh, that’s too bad. Food in the jail was good?
B: No way! Food in this jail was too bad. Bread we ate was so hard that a friend of mine in this jail choked on it and died.
A: Oh, no.