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'Love for humanity': Low-crime Japan's unpaid parole officers / 36UN6YV
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Teruko Nakazawa once intervened in a knife fight between an ex-offender and their mother -- all in a day's unpaid work for Japan's army of volunteer probation officers.
The 83-year-old devoted decades to supervising and helping rehabilitate convicted criminals on parole. She didn't take a single yen for her hard work under a long-running but little-known state scheme that some say contributes to the nation's famously low crime rate. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES