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Tokyo Metropolitan Police Headquarters in 1931. The TMPD was established by Japanese statesman Kawaji Toshiyoshi in 1874. Kawaji, who had helped establish the earlier rasotsu in 1871 following the disestablishment of the Edo period police system, was part of the Iwakura Mission to Europe, where he gathered information on Western policing; he was mostly inspired by the police of France ...
The Public Security Bureau (警視庁公安部, Keishichō-kōanbu) is a bureau of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department (TMPD) in charge of public security with jurisdiction over the Tokyo metropolis. It has a force of more than 2,000 officers. The bureau reports to the Deputy Superintendent General. [1]
Tokyo police on Monday stepped up the hunt for members of the Japanese Red Army wanted for their alleged role in attacks in the 1970s and 1980s, releasing a video with images of the aging ...
August 3 – The first trial by jury for over 60 years, first time under the new Jury system, is started at the Tokyo Regional Court. [ citation needed ] August 10 – A massive heavy rain, following devastate flood and landslide in Sayo, Hyogo , which killed 18 people.
Japanese police have arrested a female student on suspicion of carrying out a hammer attack at a Tokyo university that left eight people injured.. The suspect, a 22-year-old South Korean sociology ...
Police in Japan said Thursday they arrested a driver after a vehicle crashed into a temporary barricade near the Israeli Embassy in Tokyo, injuring one police officer. Tokyo Metropolitan Police ...
The Emergency Service Unit (特別警備隊, Tokubetsu-keibi-tai) was a rapid reaction force of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department (TMPD) in the pre-World War II era. [1] This unit were interpreted as a Japanese counterpart of the New York City Police Department Emergency Service Unit. [2]
However, certain prefectural police, especially those serving prefectures with larger populations, have different names: Tokyo's police is the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department (警視庁, Keishi-chō); Hokkaido's is known as Dō-keisatsu ; and Ōsaka's and Kyōto's are known as Fu-keisatsu (府警察).