Nursing home in Hakodate City, Hokkaido, suspected of routinely subjecting residents to inappropriate physical restraints. Residents' beds were surrounded by fences and their lower bodies were wrapped tightly in sheets or towelettes to make them unable to move about it.
Chairman of the corporation that operates the facility said, ''It is true that there was physical restraint, and we regret it, but we have not done anything that would lead to accusations of abuse'' Images show residents who are forced to sit with their legs hanging out from the bed rails.