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Japanese police departments show comedic and dramatic sides while luring new graduates

Master Blaster
Apr 1, 2016
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Police departments in Osaka, Fukuoka, Oita, and Tokyo are reminding potential recruits that a career in law enforcement promises drama, power, mystery and yes, monkeys.

Japan
(Fukuoka • Oita • Osaka • police • recruitment posters)

Police in China raise stakes on cybercrime with playing cards featuring wanted fugitives

Master Blaster
Jan 15, 2016

Next time you play Go Fish, do it with 54 of Binyang’s most wanted.

China
(Binyang • cards • crime • cybercrime • fraud • Guangxi • police)

Motorcycle cop caught on video applauded for doing his job by “not doing his job”【Video】

Master Blaster
Dec 30, 2015

Your feelings about the following video will probably depend on your own experiences with police on the road, but the officer in the clip has received huge praise here in Japan for handling a potential traffic violation.

Japan
(fine • police • traffic violation • video)

Gifu police chase shoplifter with 20 patrol cars and helicopter, fail to catch him

Master Blaster
Dec 7, 2015

He must have really wanted that make-up…

Japan
(cosmetics • crime • Gifu • police • shoplifting)

Patlabor AV-98 Ingram anime mecha arrives in Niigata, residents welcome their giant robo-cop

KK Miller
Oct 28, 2015

For anyone who lives in Niigata or is planning on heading there in the next couple of days, please be sure to obey all the laws and regulations of the prefecture. It’s not that they have odd rules that are going to catch you off guard, it’s the fact that there is a gigantic, police labor robot, or Patlabor, that has arrived in the prefecture. Its appearance has caused a bit of a commotion and the robot is, potentially, fully prepared to take out any criminals while it’s stationed there.

Oh, and if you think you might be able to commit some sort of crime out of sight of a robotic police presence, the human officers have a very speedy patrol car in the area as well.

Japan
(anime • cars • Mazda • Niigata • Patlabor • police • robots)

Mounted police officers in Kyoto get Heian Period outfits to match their ancestral colleagues

Preston Phro
Oct 21, 2015

Though the Heian Period probably evokes more images of poetry and courtly love affairs than daring action, there was still plenty of work for the kebiishi, the peacekeepers of the time. Though the Heian court’s police force is now long gone, they remain a fixture of Japanese police history, and, in fact, served as the inspiration for the new uniforms to be worn by the Kyoto mounted police at this year Jidai Festival!

Japan
(festival • horses • Kyoto • police • traditional Japanese clothing)

Woman arrested for pocketing change worth US$370, claims she “didn’t notice”

Krista Rogers
May 26, 2015

On May 21, police in Japan’s Miyagi Prefecture arrested a woman on swindling charges after the cashier at a local store erroneously handed her an extra 45,000 yen (US$370) in change. The woman is denying the charges, claiming that she simply “didn’t notice” the large amount of cash she received in the transaction.

Japan
(convenience store • Ishinomaki • Miyagi • police • swindling)

Now you can experience getting stopped by the Japanese police on Google Streetview

ロケットニュース24
Mar 3, 2015

Google Maps has been a great boon to me in my time in Japan. In fact, GPS maps were the biggest reason I got my first smartphone in 2009, followed closely by the ability to write unfamiliar kanji by hand into a dictionary I’d always have with me. But Google Maps was definitely the biggest draw.

In the interceding six years, Google Maps has grown from something useful to something indispensable to many people. It’s not just good for helping you find a tiny store in Shibuya, either, since the maps can open up a whole world of digital sightseeing for people. And where there are bored people on computers, there are also bound to be Easter Eggs and creepy pranks to be discovered.

Internet, Japan
(Google Maps • Google Streetview • police)

When a single dot doesn’t do the trick: Legal trouble ensues for izakaya over name

Hayashi 'Fang' Hougi
Jan 19, 2015

We live in a world of innovation and inspiration. Every day, we see new products riffing on older ones, and apps that are purporting to be the next Instagram for Snapchat inspired by Vine.

But when does something cease to innovate and become a simple knock-off? Would you consider “Word・Press” a different web service from “WordPress”? How about if someone opened up a hamburger joint called “McDonalds” instead of “McDonald’s”? Well one izakaya in Hiroshima, Japan tested out this first example for us, and found that simply slipping a dot into its name didn’t allow it to get around copyright and trademark laws.

Japan
(copyright • Hiroshima • izakaya • police • warawara)

Low crime in Japan means police officers create ridiculous snow sculptures instead

Scott Wilson
Jan 14, 2015

It snows a lot in Hokkaido. Like, a lot. No seriously, they have a hotel made out of ice and snow and just take a look at this poor Lawson convenience store that was devoured by snowfall.

So with all that snow around you can either grumble as you shovel your driveway for the third time that day, or you can make the best of it. One police officer in Hokkaido did just that, creating an amazing snow-sculpture of a Japanese police car right outside the station.

Japan
(Hokkaido • Japanese Police • police • snow • snow sculptures)

Man revives woman with AED, branded a “pervert” for removing her clothes to apply electrode pads

Fran W
Oct 22, 2014

A man in Japan says he was questioned by police and branded a “pervert” after providing emergency medical assistance to a stranger. The man was attending to a woman who had been involved in a traffic accident when he believes someone who saw him cutting through the woman’s clothes to apply a defibrillator to her bare chest called the police and reported him for behaving inappropriately.

An Automated External Defibrillator (AED) analyses the rhythm of the heart and, if necessary, delivers an electrical shock to help it return to normal. AEDs are provided in public places and are designed to be operated by members of the public, even those with no medical background. The man is now calling for better understanding of the correct use of AEDs.

Japan
(AED • first aid • funny • news • odd • police)

“Spies” from the police force confuse and anger Hong Kong protesters

Joan Coello
Oct 7, 2014

As many of you probably already know, protests are going on in Hong Kong as a portion of its citizens are demanding for electoral democracy. The protest, which began on 26 September, triggered off a chain of events, from students boycotting classes, to thousands of people occupying several major areas of the bustling city in demonstration, to mysterious flying objects, and now, mysterious doppelgängers.

China
(Hong Kong • police • protest • spy)

Police officer arrested for assaulting 2 train station attendants in Saitama

Japan Today
Oct 1, 2014

Saitama prefectural police said Monday that a 54-year-old police officer has been arrested after he assaulted two train station attendants.

Japan
(crime • Japan Today • police • station • train)

Chinese city questions $32,000 budget for cops getting three haircuts a month

Scott R Dixon
Sep 22, 2014

How many times a month does a police officer need to get their hair cut? That is the debate going on in the southern Chinese city of Shenzen after authorities found out that local cops there had budgeted nearly two million RMB (US$32,000) over a two-year period to have each of its more than 2,000 police officers have three haircuts a month.

While city authorities are questioning the necessity of the cops’ excessive visits to the barber, local citizens are outraged and are demanding a more “reasonable” haircut budget from their police force.

China
(barber • budget • China • cops • corruption • haircut • police • politics • Shenzhen)

Japanese high schooler fails driver’s license test 20 times, tries to hire someone else to take it for him

KK Miller
Sep 17, 2014

How far would you go to pass a test? At all points in our life, tests determine whether we succeed or fail with little remorse for how much grueling effort actually went into studying for it. One test in Japan is extremely taxing and foreigners and Japanese alike shudder at even the thought of taking it. We are talking about the Japanese driver’s license test and one first year high school student from Fukuoka who had failed the written portion 20 times, finally resorted to cheating in order to try and pass it.

Japan
(crime • fail • Fukuoka • license • motorized bike • police)

Handsome Nagano police officers get their own manga

Anime News Network
Sep 16, 2014

Since 2013, the Nagano Prefecture Police Department has run a 4-panel manga series called Keisatsu-no Oniisan! (literally “Big Brother Policeman”) on its website. It depicts two police officers, one young and the other middle-aged. Now, thanks to their increasing popularity, they’re getting a manga in a magazine, Manga Time Jumbo, devoted to 4-panel manga.

Japan
(manga • Nagano • police)

Policeman throws up after questioning a suspect who hadn’t brushed his teeth in a year

Joan Coello
Aug 30, 2014

There is a Chinese idiom based on the ancient military strategies of China: “Of the thirty-six stratagems, the best is to flee”. However, if you can’t flee, and have your hands held down, what would you do? If you haven’t been brushing your teeth for a year, you might have a chance at distracting your enemy with your breath.

We don’t really want to know how bad that smells, but apparently, a man who was recently arrested in Hebei, China, managed to make a police officer throw up because of his foul breath.

China
(bad breath • body odor • crime • Hubei • police)

You’re under arrest! Mongolian beauty serves and protects【Photos】

KK Miller
Aug 23, 2014

There is no shortage of beautiful women on the internet, but nowadays you need something…else, to separate you from the crowd. We’ve introduced hotties before, ranging from a marathon runner in China to a police woman in Xinjiang. Our next looker is from Mongolia and also puts her life on the line every day to protect the people in her city, which already makes her someone you don’t want to mess with. You’ll especially want to watch yourself when you find out that her husband and the majority of her family are in the business as well!

N Asia
(beauty • Mongolia • police)

Bomb-diffusing cop is also finalist in male beauty pageant, looks gorgeous both in and out of uniform

Cara Clegg
Aug 17, 2014

Is this the best-looking guy in the Philippines? You might think he’s an actor from some detective drama, but he’s actually a real life cop, and now also a male beauty pageant participant. The muscular man in uniform (and often out of it) has captured hearts across the Philippines and is currently enjoying a burst of celebrity, although he swears show business isn’t for him.

SE Asia
(beauty pageant • hot guys • male models • Philippines • police)

Saudi Arabian TV tempts would-be thieves in Tokyo to test Japan’s honesty

Scott R Dixon
Jul 1, 2014

Besides great sushi, great customer service and ubiquitous vending machines, another great thing about living in Japan is the relatively low crime rate there. Although the country certainly has its criminals (including very cute and cuddly ones), visitors, tourists and expats in Japan routinely extol how Japanese culture has created a society where even a wallet full of cash will be returned to its owner most of the time. After hearing about Japan’s reputation for being an honest, rule-abiding country, a Saudi Arabian TV show created a social experiment to see what would happen when they left a very conspicuous wallet on the busy streets of Tokyo.