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Article

18 Jul 2004

Author:
David Allen, Stars and Stripes [US military newspaper]

Ex-Marine [US marine] decries nature of Japan prison work

“I made parts for Mazdas and Nissans,”...“You had no choice. If you refused to work, they put you in what we called a chill box...They made auto parts and assembled cellular telephones, the former prisoners said...he [Christopher Lavinger, formerly imprisoned in Japan] was forced to sit nearly motionless for 12 hours a day after refusing to produce goods for Sega and several Japanese department stores, for the equivalent of about three cents an hour.