A "little" detail indeed, but surprisingly hard to research.

When: Modern day
Where: Tokyo, Japan
Who: Adult Male

My question is this:

In Japan,(specifically Tokyo) how much time must pass after an adult male citizen goes missing, before friends or family can file a missing persons report?

For that matter, can a friend, acquaintance, employer, etc, ( Read more... )

Setting: Fictional universe based off of modern-day Japan, only with cute little monster-things. (Pokemon universe, but I'm trying to keep things as realistic as possible aside from, y'know, the Pokemon ( Read more... )

I've lurked for awhile, but this is my first time asking a question, so here goes =)!

Search Terms: I've looked through relevant tags and searched "forensic accountants in Japan", "Japanese fraud squad", "Japanese police dress code", and pretty much every variation thereof =/. I've learned a bit about the profession, at least in North America and ( Read more... )

Where: Japan - the city is fictional, I'm afraid. It's a fairly large city and, as with all fairly large cities, doesn't have the best crime rate.
When: Basically modern - some time between 2000 and '04, though the school for the main character would have been primarily in the 1990s.
Searched: Google'd D.A.R.E. in Japan; drug control programs in ( Read more... )

Setting: modern day Japan, a fictional suburb of Tokyo. My main character, KI, has on his hands a person with a blocked trachea. An ambulance has been called, but there's heavy traffic, and the lead up to the situation (a gas explosion in a cafe) has caused snarl ups in all the surrounding streets. KI is injured as well, but he's still capable of ( Read more... )

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( I'm writing a fan fic to Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 and I have a few questions... )

Scenario: In a medium-sized Japanese city. in the modern day, a ( Read more... )

I've Googled every combination of "japan", "police", "jewelry/ring/wedding ring/married" that I can think of, but all I'm finding are news articles about jewelry thefts and weddings. I know that in America, officers are allowed to wear wedding bands, but I've found that Japan tends to be stricter about uniforms in general, so I want to be sure ( Read more... )

Just joined after hours of searching on the net, hope to get a better answer here.

I read a lot of anime/manga fanfiction which is of course set in Japan. Most of the stories are either set in the 1980's (Ranma 1/2 as an example) or set in the future (darn near any mecha story).

What I want to know is, are females finally allowed to be police ( Read more... )