Doing hard time just got easier with this lovely mascot employed by a Hokkaido prison

Doing hard time just got easier with this lovely mascot employed by a Hokkaido prison

Posted on Sep 17, 2013 in Japanese customs, News, Stories about Japan |

A Japanese prison housing a range of convicted criminals has unveiled a cuddly life-size mascot that bosses hope will help change the jail’s forbidding image. Officials say Asahikawa Prison in Hokkaido is too often thought of only as a dark place with imposing gray walls and not as a place of rehabilitation. They hope “Katakkuri-chan”, a nearly two-meter humanoid with a huge square face and an enormous purple flower for hair, will make people understand the true nature of...

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