Tokyo police will try to rein in a wave of shoplifting by lonely elderly people by involving them in community service, a police spokesman said yesterday.
One out of four elderly shoplifters in the capital blamed their crime on loneliness, Japanese media quoted a police survey as saying. Another 8% said it was because they had "no reason to live".
More than half the elderly shoplifters said they had no friends and 40% of them lived alone, media said.
"Making shoplifters do volunteer work in the community is effective," the Tokyo Shimbun quoted J.F. Oberlin University professor Akihiro Sakai, head of a police research panel set up to tackle shoplifting,as saying.
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