Police in Japan
In the previous entry titled "Hospitals/Clinics in Japan", I wrote about how Japanese hospitals/clinics/health insurance works.
Here,I would like to write about Police in Japan.
When you visit Japan, one thing you would notice is that 99% of the time,families in Japan does not have guns at home. You would not find many stores that sells guns for the public either.
People that own guns are very limited; Police officers, military/army officers, and yakuza (gangs in Japanese).
Police officer is called "ke-i sa-tsu ka-n" in Japanese, and they wear blue shirts with pants and hat. They carry gun and truncheons and their transportation are 3 options;bicycles,white motorcycle,and police car.
In Japan, I do not think there are police officer on horse like I have seen when I visited Boston,MA before.
I would imagine that using bicycle for policing is probably Japanese thing,but considering narrow roads, I can see why bicycles can comes handy to pursuit someone on the run on foot.Often times, they have black box attached on back of their bicycles.
I came across youtube video where you can see the police bicycle in Japan.
Police bicycle in Japan..
If you are a blog subscriber, please click here to watch the video clip.
With white motorcycles, they are used to pursuit,to stop the cars for speeding tickets,or to escort royal families along with police cars etc..
In Japan, police motorcycles,and cars colors and designs are same across the country and, police motorcycles are called " shi-ro ba-i" in Japanese and the motorcycles are white color with red rotating light.
There are annual police motorcycle skill competitions and they are very skilled on handling motorcycle. What they are checked are balancing skill; to ride the motorcycle with good balancing skill on various conditions. If they fell from motorcycle or if their foot touched ground,they will get penalty.
In the Part II video, they are competing with higher skill to ride on the motorcycle.
You can watch the police motorcycle competition video below.
Japanese police motorcycle national competition Part I
If you are a blog subscriber, please click here to watch the video clip.
Japanese police motorcycle national competition Part II
If you are a blog subscriber, please click here to watch the video clip.
The Shi-ro Ba-i Ke-i sa-tsu ka-n (Police officers on white motorcycles) sometimes do demonstration for public to show their riding skill.
Below is the youtube video of Japanese police motorcycle police demonstration
Japanese motorcycle police demonstration..
If you are a blog subscriber, please click here to watch the video clip.
The police cars are called "Pa-to-ka-a" in Japanese,and they are black and white color with red rotating light.
You can hear what their siren sounds like.
Japanese police car siren..
If you are a blog subscriber, please click here to watch the video clip.
Japanese ambulance is also white color and they also have red rotating light with siren.
You can hear ambulance siren with the video below.
Japanese ambulance sirens..
If you are a blog subscriber, please click here to watch the video clip.
In Japan, National Police Agency is on the top over the prefecture level police stations. Prefecture is equivalent to "state" in the states if you will.
Underneath the prefecture level police station, there are local/regional police stations. These local police office is the immediate responder to the public.
Near the transportation hub,shopping areas, there are small police stations called "ko-u-ban" in Japanese.
Often times, these small police office is staffed with single police officer with shift work, and they do local patrol,assisting people for directions, lost and found items,and major criminal case etc.
Japanese police officers are generally quite polite and friendly and more accessible as oppose to intimidating or making you nervous about approaching them.
When you happen to violate the traffic rules, often times, they would show up with white motorcycle and guide you to stop on road side and knock your car window with smile and ask for the driver's license.
The speed limit for driving a car in Japan on highway is 100 km/h (62 mil/h) and local road, it is usually 40 km/h (25 mil/h).
If you are getting used to driving in the states and rent a car there, you may want to keep in mind how fast you can drive in Japan to avoid getting a speed tickets there.
Also, when you drive a car in Japan, you will drive on left side,not right side. So, you may want to keep in mind as to which side of the road you will be driving as well.
I think that if there were one thing they should improve the skill on, it will be English skill. I am not sure how well they can communicate and understand English.
Japanese police officers are government employee (Ko-u-mu in in Japanese) along with teachers, and firefighters.
The salary is not super good,but because they do not have to worry about being fired due to bad economy, the government employee jobs are very popular among university graduates.
Government employees (Police officers,firefighters, and teachers) can get pension after retirement with guarantee.
Government employee have 2 categories;governmental official (kokka-kou-mu-in in Japanese), and local public service workers (chi-ho-u ko-u-mu-in in Japanese).
Government official get better pay than local public service workers but it is very difficult to get that position.
Downside of the government employee is that, they have possibility to be transferred to other facility all across the country, and if you were a public service worker under prefecture, transfer is within the prefecture and that will be the one factor to decide which category of jobs ones wish to have.
That being said, if you become a police officer working at Metropolitan Police board, you are considered to be a government official (kokka-ko-u-mu in)and your salary is good.
If you become a police officer working under police stations run by prefecture, you are public service worker (chi-ho-u ko-u-mu-in).
If you become a teacher or firefighter and prefecture hired you,then, you are public service worker (chi-ho-u ko-u-mu-in).
Japanese police officer working under prefecture earn roughly about $4,400/month and their bonus is roughly about $19,400,and they make roughly $71,800/year.
Japanese firefighter working under prefecture earn roughly about $5,000/month and their bonus is roughly about $20,000,and they make roughly $80,000/year.
Japanese teacher at high school earn roughly $4,700/month.Their bonus is roughly about $20,000,and they make roughly $78,000/year.
I hear often that teachers here in the states buy stuff they use for classes by themselves but in Japan, schools would pay for what teachers would need for their classes.
Elementary school, junior high school are compulsory education and schools would prepare the textbooks for students.Lunch fee, painting tool box etc are parents would have to pay for. Elementary,junior high,and high school do not have cafeteria at school and group of students assigned weekly go get utensils,food etc from lunch room from lunch lady and bring them for everyone to classroom to eat.
I have had job exams in the past for traffic officer; paper test, essay,and physical test. There were so many people applied to the job.
My very first job ended up with receptionist at the travel agency, but all worked out well. I love to travel and I love to meet new people and I love to experience new culture... coming over to the states, it was no surprise that I have enjoyed making boarding announcement for Airlines or checking passengers in at the Airport..
Here,I would like to write about Police in Japan.
When you visit Japan, one thing you would notice is that 99% of the time,families in Japan does not have guns at home. You would not find many stores that sells guns for the public either.
People that own guns are very limited; Police officers, military/army officers, and yakuza (gangs in Japanese).
Police officer is called "ke-i sa-tsu ka-n" in Japanese, and they wear blue shirts with pants and hat. They carry gun and truncheons and their transportation are 3 options;bicycles,white motorcycle,and police car.
In Japan, I do not think there are police officer on horse like I have seen when I visited Boston,MA before.
I would imagine that using bicycle for policing is probably Japanese thing,but considering narrow roads, I can see why bicycles can comes handy to pursuit someone on the run on foot.Often times, they have black box attached on back of their bicycles.
I came across youtube video where you can see the police bicycle in Japan.
Police bicycle in Japan..
If you are a blog subscriber, please click here to watch the video clip.
With white motorcycles, they are used to pursuit,to stop the cars for speeding tickets,or to escort royal families along with police cars etc..
In Japan, police motorcycles,and cars colors and designs are same across the country and, police motorcycles are called " shi-ro ba-i" in Japanese and the motorcycles are white color with red rotating light.
There are annual police motorcycle skill competitions and they are very skilled on handling motorcycle. What they are checked are balancing skill; to ride the motorcycle with good balancing skill on various conditions. If they fell from motorcycle or if their foot touched ground,they will get penalty.
In the Part II video, they are competing with higher skill to ride on the motorcycle.
You can watch the police motorcycle competition video below.
Japanese police motorcycle national competition Part I
If you are a blog subscriber, please click here to watch the video clip.
Japanese police motorcycle national competition Part II
If you are a blog subscriber, please click here to watch the video clip.
The Shi-ro Ba-i Ke-i sa-tsu ka-n (Police officers on white motorcycles) sometimes do demonstration for public to show their riding skill.
Below is the youtube video of Japanese police motorcycle police demonstration
Japanese motorcycle police demonstration..
If you are a blog subscriber, please click here to watch the video clip.
The police cars are called "Pa-to-ka-a" in Japanese,and they are black and white color with red rotating light.
You can hear what their siren sounds like.
Japanese police car siren..
If you are a blog subscriber, please click here to watch the video clip.
Japanese ambulance is also white color and they also have red rotating light with siren.
You can hear ambulance siren with the video below.
Japanese ambulance sirens..
If you are a blog subscriber, please click here to watch the video clip.
In Japan, National Police Agency is on the top over the prefecture level police stations. Prefecture is equivalent to "state" in the states if you will.
Underneath the prefecture level police station, there are local/regional police stations. These local police office is the immediate responder to the public.
Near the transportation hub,shopping areas, there are small police stations called "ko-u-ban" in Japanese.
Often times, these small police office is staffed with single police officer with shift work, and they do local patrol,assisting people for directions, lost and found items,and major criminal case etc.
Japanese police officers are generally quite polite and friendly and more accessible as oppose to intimidating or making you nervous about approaching them.
When you happen to violate the traffic rules, often times, they would show up with white motorcycle and guide you to stop on road side and knock your car window with smile and ask for the driver's license.
The speed limit for driving a car in Japan on highway is 100 km/h (62 mil/h) and local road, it is usually 40 km/h (25 mil/h).
If you are getting used to driving in the states and rent a car there, you may want to keep in mind how fast you can drive in Japan to avoid getting a speed tickets there.
Also, when you drive a car in Japan, you will drive on left side,not right side. So, you may want to keep in mind as to which side of the road you will be driving as well.
I think that if there were one thing they should improve the skill on, it will be English skill. I am not sure how well they can communicate and understand English.
Japanese police officers are government employee (Ko-u-mu in in Japanese) along with teachers, and firefighters.
The salary is not super good,but because they do not have to worry about being fired due to bad economy, the government employee jobs are very popular among university graduates.
Government employees (Police officers,firefighters, and teachers) can get pension after retirement with guarantee.
Government employee have 2 categories;governmental official (kokka-kou-mu-in in Japanese), and local public service workers (chi-ho-u ko-u-mu-in in Japanese).
Government official get better pay than local public service workers but it is very difficult to get that position.
Downside of the government employee is that, they have possibility to be transferred to other facility all across the country, and if you were a public service worker under prefecture, transfer is within the prefecture and that will be the one factor to decide which category of jobs ones wish to have.
That being said, if you become a police officer working at Metropolitan Police board, you are considered to be a government official (kokka-ko-u-mu in)and your salary is good.
If you become a police officer working under police stations run by prefecture, you are public service worker (chi-ho-u ko-u-mu-in).
If you become a teacher or firefighter and prefecture hired you,then, you are public service worker (chi-ho-u ko-u-mu-in).
Japanese police officer working under prefecture earn roughly about $4,400/month and their bonus is roughly about $19,400,and they make roughly $71,800/year.
Japanese firefighter working under prefecture earn roughly about $5,000/month and their bonus is roughly about $20,000,and they make roughly $80,000/year.
Japanese teacher at high school earn roughly $4,700/month.Their bonus is roughly about $20,000,and they make roughly $78,000/year.
I hear often that teachers here in the states buy stuff they use for classes by themselves but in Japan, schools would pay for what teachers would need for their classes.
Elementary school, junior high school are compulsory education and schools would prepare the textbooks for students.Lunch fee, painting tool box etc are parents would have to pay for. Elementary,junior high,and high school do not have cafeteria at school and group of students assigned weekly go get utensils,food etc from lunch room from lunch lady and bring them for everyone to classroom to eat.
I have had job exams in the past for traffic officer; paper test, essay,and physical test. There were so many people applied to the job.
My very first job ended up with receptionist at the travel agency, but all worked out well. I love to travel and I love to meet new people and I love to experience new culture... coming over to the states, it was no surprise that I have enjoyed making boarding announcement for Airlines or checking passengers in at the Airport..
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