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Tall Stories 512: The strange transformation of Nara Juvenile Prison
5 minutes Posted Jun 8, 2026 at 4:00 pm.
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Gendel Gento takes us to the last surviving example of Japan’s “Five Great Prisons” built during the Meiji era, which has recently undergone a transformation.

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