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Wife's Lonely Vigil for Imprisoned Husband

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

David McNeill
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Once a fortnight, Hoshino Akiko sets out on the 800-km roundtrip from her home in Tokyo to Kyushu to see her husband in Tokushima Prison.

Akiko has been making the same journey for almost 16 years and has never missed one of these precious 30-minute visits. That's a lot of time alone on trains and buses to think about the odd life she has chosen, but she says she has never regretted her decision to marry the incarcerated Hoshino Fumiaki in 1986.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 2 , Issue 11 , November 2004 , e7
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