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A police officer directing traffic after the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. The Japanese government established a European-style civil police system in 1874, spearheaded by the efforts of statesman Kawaji Toshiyoshi, under the centralized control of the Police Bureau within the Home Ministry to put down internal disturbances and maintain order during the Meiji Restoration.
The Commissioner General of the National Police Agency (警察庁長官, Keisatsu-chō Chōkan) is the highest ranking police officer of Japan, regarded as an exception to the regular class structure. For the Deputy Commissioner General (次長, Jichō), the Senior Commissioner is supplemented.
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 ...
Tokyo Detention House. Within the criminal justice system of Japan, there exist three basic features that characterize its operations.First, the institutions—police, government prosecutors' offices, courts, and correctional organs—maintain close and cooperative relations with each other, consulting frequently on how best to accomplish the shared goals of limiting and controlling crime.
The bureau reports to the Deputy Superintendent General. [1] In the Japanese police organization, only the Metropolitan Police Department becomes "the bureau" where the security police branch becomes independent. In other prefectural police forces, the Public Security Section and Foreign Affairs Division are installed in a Security Department.
The National Police Agency Security Bureau (警察庁警備局, Keisatsu-chō Keibi-kyoku) is a bureau of the National Police Agency in charge of national-level internal security affairs. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It supervises the Security Bureau and the Public Security Bureau of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department , and Security departments of other ...
機動隊パーフェクトブック [Perfect Guide Book of the Japanese Riot Police]. Separate-volume Supplement of the Best Car Magazine . Kodansha. ISBN 978-4063666137. National Police Agency, ed. (1977). 戦後警察史 [Post-war Police History] (in Japanese). Japan Police Support Association . NCID BN01929285.
After Japan's surrender in 1945, occupation authorities retained the prewar police structure until a new system was implemented and the Diet passed the 1947 Police Law. Contrary to Japanese proposals for a strong, centralized force to deal with postwar unrest—but in line with the thinking of American police reformers on the same subject—the ...