Japan has recently seen a series of incidents in which police officers were attacked and had their pistols stolen while on duty. Last June, a man killed an officer at a police box in Toyama City ...

Japan has also exported the koban system to help other countries protect public safety. Singapore opened its first koban in 1983, and the Sao Paulo state police in Brazil adopted the police box ...

Yasuhiro Oura, 52, was previously arrested for attempted extortion against a former Upper House lawmaker, for which he has ...

Another factor is how police treat victims. In her 2017 book Black Box, Itō recounts how she was ... of Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan member Yuniko Michiyoshi doggedly questioning ...

Shiori Ito’s film about her own alleged sexual assault has been screened at over 50 film festivals and won multiple awards ...

As shown in Black Box Diaries, police expressed reluctance to investigate the case, citing century-old rape laws in Japan that require evidence of a violent sexual assault to pursue any charges.