A woman in her 20s who was groped on the street ran 40 meters and arrived at a “koban” police box seeking protection from her attacker. But her nightmare escalated there. The police substation ...

In the 1980s, a hut-like police “koban” was installed here. Locals found their own use for it: “It became a urinal,” recalled a Mission Station lieutenant from the time. In recent years, as rampant ...

Police in Saitama City have arrested a 24-year-old man on suspicion of killing a 15-year-old girl at the entrance to her apartment building on Monday night. According to police, the incident occurred ...

As other cops on the beat here have done for nearly six decades, Shion Takeuchi casts a vigilant eye on Tokyo’s bustling Roppongi district out of a “koban” police box. While on the job ...

abduction One factor is the declining number of police substations and local police boxes or "koban" across the country. Kobans have dropped from 6,455 in 2005 to 6,215 in 2024, while the number ...