Victoria Law’s Reviews > Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan > Status Update

“The government knows how to punish people well. But I ask them, ‘Have you decided ways to help those who have paid for their crimes? Can you guarantee that, once free, they will not be exposed to the hazards of starvation, and long for the security of prison life?’l -Fukuda Hideko, imprisoned in Japan from 1885 to 1889