Japan has many of the longest living and most robust senior citizens in the world. Yet, many of these senior adults are struggling. Loneliness, financial concerns, and health needs top the list of their stressors. In Japan, 20% of people over age 65 live in poverty. An increasing number of elderly women have turned to crime in order to survive. The main reason for imprisonment is theft, sometimes for stealing food. The largest women’s prison has become home for a number of senior women. Loneliness in Japan is so epidemic that some elderly women are committing crimes to go to prison so that they might have friends, food and health care. Required work in prison factories seems not to have been a deterrent. The number of those imprisoned age 65 or older is increasing. Pray that many confined will come to know our Lord who promised to personally be with us until the end of time. Ask that they will be introduced to the one called “friend” who is closer to us than the best brother or sister. Lift these up and ask that they might experience the community and support that is found in Jesus Christ.