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Doing Hard Time in Abashiri: Abashiri Prison Museum
Doing Hard Time in Abashiri: Abashiri Prison Museum

Doing Hard Time in Abashiri: Abashiri Prison Museum

This story begins not with a prison but a road. Hokkaido is Japan’s Alaska and Old West combined. In the 1800s this massive, harsh land was sparsely populated and rich in resources waiting to be exploited. Japan needed pioneers to…