For close to a quarter of a century, death row inmate Hiroko Kazama¡¯s every movement in her 3? tatami-size cell at the Tokyo Detention House has been watched.
When she wakes up, uses the bathroom or creates a piece of art, she does so surveilled by guards who observe her through a ceiling-mounted camera.
¡°Prisoners are never told how or when they are being monitored, which creates a profound sense of fear and uncertainty,¡± Kazama, 68, said in a statement to The Japan Times.
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