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 34,514 in Fiscal Year 2022. As of March 31, 2023, 86.5 % of inmates sentenced to imprisonment without work engaged in work (Source: the Correction Bureau, Ministry of Justice).

In FY 2022, 57 vocational training subjects, such as business skills, welding, forklift operation, information processing technology, call center operating, handling of medicine/nursing care insurance, marketing strategy, etc. were available, with 10,165 inmates having completed the training and a total of 6,491 inmates having obtained qualifications or licenses to be welding technicians, boiler engineers, information processing engineers, etc. (Source: the Correction Bureau, Ministry of Justice).