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dayseye
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 Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 1:43 am Post subject: Becoming a Cop |
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| I am an American who has always been interested about living in Japan and I want to find out more information on jobs my husband can do down the line other then teaching. I want to find out more information about police jobs in Japan and not much has been showing up in this website or any other. Lets just say he knows good conversational Japanese and has training here in America. |
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Brooks
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| Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 1:50 am Post subject: |
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well if he`s Japanese, ok.
But if not, I think you are barking up the wrong tree. |
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Venti
Joined: 19 Oct 2006
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Location: Kanto, Japan
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| Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 2:56 am Post subject: Re: Becoming a Cop |
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| dayseye wrote: |
| I am an American who has always been interested about living in Japan and I want to find out more information on jobs my husband can do down the line other then teaching. I want to find out more information about police jobs in Japan and not much has been showing up in this website or any other. Lets just say he knows good conversational Japanese and has training here in America. |
Other than some sort of cooperative internship with a police department back home, there's just no way this could happen even if he grew up in Japan, was as fluent in Japanese as a native speaker, and had Japanese relatives. Sorry. |
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furiousmilksheikali
Joined: 31 Jul 2006
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Location: In a coffee shop, splitting a 30,000 yen tab with Sekiguchi.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 3:17 am Post subject: Re: Becoming a Cop |
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| dayseye wrote: |
| I am an American who has always been interested about living in Japan and I want to find out more information on jobs my husband can do down the line other then teaching. I want to find out more information about police jobs in Japan and not much has been showing up in this website or any other. Lets just say he knows good conversational Japanese and has training here in America. |
Erm...are you really surprised that not much information about becoming a cop has shown up on an EFL website?
There are jobs available working with the police. This includes teaching English and in some cases liaison work but I imagine that they are quite difficult to get.
As for working as a cop - forget it! You would need to be a Japanese national and the process for becoming Japanese would be ludicrously impractical for you if you don't have the intention of staying here for the rest of your life. Even if you did become Japanese your chances of being accepted as a cop are as good as zero. |
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dayseye
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| Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 9:31 am Post subject: Re: |
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Thanks for the replies  |
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Sage
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
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Location: Iwate no inaka!
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About a year and a half ago I saw a bunch of Bosozoku pushing and punching some in Nagahama. What did the cops do? They asked the gang to be nice and "please" go away. Then the cops left, not asking for back-up to help round up the kids. They were, on occasion, PUNCHING the cops. End result? The cops went away.
Why would anyone want to be a cop in Japan? They are laughed at and treated with no respect. People consider them to be a joke, useless, and pathetic. At least in the US people fear and/or respect police. Not in Japan.
PS: I heard that if a cop fires his gun its pretty much his fault for not finding a better way to deal with the situation. I can't say if that's true or not, however. |
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AndyH
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| Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 2:19 am Post subject: |
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| I worked in law enforcement for five years in the US, and even though Japan might be overall safer, I wouldn't want to be a cop here. |
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G Cthulhu
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 5:35 am Post subject: |
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| Sage wrote: |
Why would anyone want to be a cop in Japan? They are laughed at and treated with no respect. People consider them to be a joke, useless, and pathetic. At least in the US people fear and/or respect police. Not in Japan.
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I'd say the general population respects them pretty mych fine. Ex-pats don't tend too, but IMO in most instances that's simple bigotry. After all, "country cop-Japan" is going to be a much safer bet for competence, reliability, honesty, and dedication than "country cop-USA"! If you think all Japanese police are useless and a pushover then I suggest you find the nearest Metropolitan Riot Police team and ask one of them to kick you around for a few minutes and see how you go. ;) |
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Gordon
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| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 5:50 am Post subject: |
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[quote="G Cthulhu"]
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If you think all Japanese police are useless and a pushover then I suggest you find the nearest Metropolitan Riot Police team and ask one of them to kick you around for a few minutes and see how you go.  |
Sounds fun. How exactly would you translate that?  |
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king kakipi
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Location: Australia
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| Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 9:07 am Post subject: |
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G Chthulu wrote:-
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| I'd say the general population respects them pretty mych fine. Ex-pats don't tend too, but IMO in most instances that's simple bigotry. After all, "country cop-Japan" is going to be a much safer bet for competence, reliability, honesty, and dedication than "country cop-USA"! If you think all Japanese police are useless and a pushover then I suggest you find the nearest Metropolitan Riot Police team and ask one of them to kick you around for a few minutes and see how you go. |
Wow, so the fact that they can beat people up means they are good cops........ 
I`d say the fact that a fairly big minority of the general pop. runs red lights, don`t wear seat belts, use kayties when driving etc suggests that they don`t feel at all threatened at all by the prospect of getting lifted by the filth. Buta-niku san is too busy chasing innocent gaijin (illegally; see Debito) on bicycles to deal with other minor crims, like Yakuza (running petty prostitution, money laundering, people and drug trafficking etc). At least in Australia they take on the major players too (bikies etc). Yes, G.C., I take my hat off to those hard-working boys and girls in blue.........  |
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G Cthulhu
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Wow, so the fact that they can beat people up means they are good cops........ :roll: |
In the opinion of the person I was replying too, yes, it seems that's their criteria. Personally I think that their post said more about their attitudes about what counts as "good" policing (apparently, the ability & willingness to shoot people and/or escalate violence and induce fear) and that's what I was getting at. Sorry that I didn't make it clearer for you.
BTW, respect for the police /= respect for the law IMO. But obviously YMMV. |
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king kakipi
Joined: 16 Feb 2004
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| BTW, respect for the police /= respect for the law IMO. |
Trying explaining that to your average `Koban Kentaro-kun`; even in fluent Japanese I doubt they would understand any subtle difference.
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| But obviously YMMV. |
Sorry you`ve lost me there. Please enlighten me. |
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canuck
Joined: 11 May 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 4:25 am Post subject: |
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| But obviously YMMV. |
| king kakipi wrote: |
| Sorry you`ve lost me there. Please enlighten me. |
http://www.google.com/search?q=YMMV |
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king kakipi
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| Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 9:16 am Post subject: |
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| TFT! |
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