The number of inmates and detainees at prisons, juvenile prisons and detention centers across Japan at the end of 2019 is believed to have fallen below 50,000 for the first time in 23 years, according to a Justice Ministry survey.
The number, which totaled 50,578 at the end of 2018, stood at 48,802 as of the end of October 2019.
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