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Calcutta Times:
The number of old fishermen in Japan has increased. Because the crime of old people is increasing. Those who are 65 years old in the country are involved in various kinds of crimes. But the reason behind this crime will bring water to the eye.
69 year old Toshio Takata from Hiroshima resident Recently released after being in prison for some time. He said he wanted to break the law in jail to go to jail.
Toshio was looking for a lodging place free of cost. It is not bad in prison. That is why he broke the law, he said. Toshio said, now I depend on the pension. I have run out of money. That's why I thought I would be free if I were in prison.
He took out an idea to go to jail. Take a bicycle from the side of the street and carry it and go straight to the police. He went there and told that he stole the bicycle. It worked. This was Toshio's first offense, when he was 62 years old.
In Japan's court, matters of small-scale stealing were taken very seriously. As a result, Toshio was sentenced to one year's imprisonment. Toshio does not look like a genius criminal. He does not think that he can scare someone on the street with a knife. But when he was released from prison at the first stage, he did that work.
Toshio said, I went to a park and threatened some women with a knife. I had no intention of harming them. I thought one of them would call a policeman. One of them did the job and the police came to arrest me.
In all, he spent half a year in prison in the last eight years. He said, I do not like to stay in jail. But I can stay there free of charge. My pension does not cost money while living there. So being in prison is not a lot of trouble.
The people of Japan are very strictly abiding by the laws. But the recent crimes of those who are 65 years of age In 1997, one in every 20 people was a criminal who was 65 years old. But now one of the five people is 65 years of age.
Like Toshiro, many 65-year-old people have been repeatedly committing crimes. In 2016, the number of criminals in the age group of more than 65 years is approximately 2,500, among which more than one-third has been punished five times.
A 70-year-old woman, unwilling to disclose the name, said, "I could not live with my husband. I have no place to live now. So my only way was to steal something and go to prison.
He said, those who are not able to walk properly, who are 80 years of age, are committing crimes. Because, they have no food, no money. Among the crimes that the elderly are doing, mainly stole goods from the super shop. But these are not too expensive things.
Most of the stolen goods are priced at thousand yen or less than 20 pounds. Australian-born Michael Newman now conducts a research firm in Tokyo. In a report published in 2016, he showed that many pensioners receiving home rent, food and health services are getting indebted.
In areas where the economic opportunities are less in Japan, young people are moving away from their families and left for employment. As a result, the old age dependent on pension is reading poorly. Those who feel that they can not be dependent on pension money, they are considered to be better in prison.
However, director Kenichi Yamada, with an organization called With Hiroshima, thinks that the problem of old people is related to mental problems. There is no financial relationship with this. The elderly are becoming more isolated. They are not able to withstand loneliness.
According to Kanichi, people usually do not commit crime, if there is anyone to look after him. He thinks that the involvement of the crime is an excuse only. Their main problem is loneliness. Those who are suffering from loneliness, they are repeatedly trying to go to jail. Because they will find companions there.