[2] Before the end of World War II, Fuchū prison held Communist leaders, members of banned religious sects, and leaders of the Korean independence movement.

After the war, the prison was visited by Harold Isaacs of Newsweek, French correspondent Robert Guillain, John K. Emmerson, E. Herbert Norman and[1][2] Domei reporter Tay Tateishi.

[4] The 1968 “300 million yen robbery” took place outside of the walls of the prison.

The prison facilities were renovated over a ten-year period from 1986 to 1995.

Foreigners are incarcerated for various crimes but all in single cells in two or three blocks.