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A police car drives past Koenji station and the flash highlights a curiously neon sign on its side.(I'd been meaning for quite some time to write something about the police in Japan but never quite got around to it. However, after reading an entry in... ...full story at So-Called Japanese Life

from So-Called Japanese Life on Wed, Feb 13 2008

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27 May 07 visit Alienation at the police station  »  Japan Times Two weeks ago my husband and I went to the Azabu police station in Tokyo to report that my wallet had been stolen. At the time it was stolen, I was at an English pub with my non-Japanese friend. The... Read more . . .
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