To accommodate an increasing number of foreigners in the capital, the MPD introduced a sign with koban in the alphabet in 1995. Japan has also exported the koban system to help other countries ...

Police in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, have arrested a 42-year-old man after he kicked a police car, damaging its door, at a koban (police box ... but I don't remember kicking anything." Japan's snowy escape ...

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 ...

The manhunt may be over, but the incident brings renewed focus on the role played in Japanese society by the "koban," or police box. The officer, Suzunosuke Kose, who was on duty at a police box ...