2 Work

Inmates sentenced to imprisonment with work are legally obliged to engage in work. Inmates sentenced to imprisonment without work or penal detention may work if they so request. The average daily number of inmates engaging in work was 43,737 in FY 2018. As of March 31, 2019, 81.4 % of inmates sentenced to imprisonment without work engaged in work (Source: The Correction Bureau, Ministry of Justice).

In FY 2018, 47 vocational training subjects, such as construction machinery, automobile mechanics, forklift operation and business skills, were available, with 13,040 inmates having completed the training and a total of 7,583 inmates having obtained qualifications or licenses to be welding technicians, boiler engineers, information processing engineers, etc. (Source: The Correction Bureau, Ministry of Justice).