Hard Labor in a Japanese prison is Hell.
I had lost my gaijin card and was IDed by police a little over a year ago... Had to spend 23 days in a Japanese jail while they investigated to see if I was who I said I was. In 23 days, I lost 40 lbs, had to sleep on the floor and could not use anything as a pillow (including the shirt I was wearing)... If I used the shirt, they would take it from me and put it in a locker ;p Cannot play games (I had hand drawn a chessboard and each individual piece... a guard saw it, took the pieced.. looked and told me (in Japanese) that I did a great job making all of the set... then threw them in the trash laughing :/ (it took me about 4 hours to make that board.. and the paper I had used was personally bought (notebook)... they supply the pen but not the paper to write on.
About day 3, the embassy sent someone over, after I had to threaten the guards/police for several hours... and the embassy did..... NOTHING to help. They are useless.
I was released after the 23 days (and interrogations ANY hour of the day or night) after they finally proved to themselves that I am a White Christian that is who he said he was that is NO threat. :p
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