The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has stationed officers who speak English at two koban in Shibuya and Shinjuku. The police department said the two koban are in front of Shibuya Station and in ...

A 17-year-old suspected of being the “Koban Creeper” was arrested Wednesday as the result of a surveillance photograph in the Little Tokyo Koban Store. The arrest was made this afternoo… ...

A 17-year-old suspected of being the “Koban Creeper” was arrested Wednesday as the result of a surveillance photograph in the Little Tokyo Koban Store. The arrest was made this afternoo… ...

As other cops on the beat here have done for nearly six decades, Shion Takeuchi casts a vigilant eye on Tokyo’s bustling Roppongi district out of a “koban” police box.

Many koban outside Tokyo lock their doors when no one is there to prevent thefts. In some areas, crime victims at empty koban must still reportedly push 110 or speed dial on the phones to contact ...

LOS ANGELES — In Little Tokyo, a five-block neighborhood east of downtown that is among the country’s largest Japanese American enclaves, news often gets delivered and shared at the century ...

A 17-year-old suspected of being the “Koban Creeper” was arrested Wednesday as the result of a surveillance photograph in the Little Tokyo Koban Store. The arrest was made this afternoo… ...

The video showed a suspect entering the Little Tokyo Koban store, in the 300 block of First Street, on June 14, and walking around the store looking at high-quality video cameras. Later the store’s ...