last year. "Musho" is short for "keimusho," which means prison in Japanese. And "Mushoran" is a pun on Michelin, a French tire company that publishes the Michelin Guide, which awards stars to ...

Japan’s choeki penalty, which mandates prison labor, has been criticized internationally. Many developed nations do not impose such a work obligation on prisoners in line with an international ...

More than 100 inmates escaped a Chad prison during a shootout that left three people dead, and wounded a state governor visiting the facility, officials told AFP today. The break-out occurred late ...

Phuket Immigration Police officers ask a 24-year-old French national suspected of involvement in a violent prison break operation in France to present identification documents after his arrest at ...

It came from a Swiss International Red Cross agent, long resident in Japan: “Camp on large island of Shikoku in the north near Inland Sea, on fertile plain between hills covered with pines ...

In a deadly prison break in Chad, more than 100 inmates escaped from a high-security facility near Mongo following a violent shoot-out that claimed three lives and left several injured, including a ...

Set in a Japanese prison camp in Thailand, the film portrays a battle of wills between captured ... with as much restraint as Woodard’s warden — until emotions eventually make their inevitable break.

A Japanese modder has been sentenced to two years in prison. As reported by NTC (thanks, Automaton), a 58-year-old man has been found guilty of modifying and selling Nintendo Switch consoles.