Japanese Police

[Demon Dave]

Ozi-jins!

[Sciby]

Hush, Dave.

[KTW]

What about actual "Drag Racing" on the street in Japan? I have heard rumors it occurs rather frequently. There is A LOT of "Street Racing" here in Florida and sometimes for serious money. There was a race Saturday night between too medium fast cars for about 100,000Y each. I have seen 10,000,000Y bet on 1 race between 2 very fast cars that run under 9 sec in the quarter mile. I have seen videos of some skyline racing on the street somewhere in Japan.Later

[Demon Dave]

not seen any street racing myself...

but I do see plenty of drifting, mainly up in the mountain passes.

[ekopow]

What about actual "Drag Racing" on the street in Japan? I have heard rumors it occurs rather frequently. There is A LOT of "Street Racing" here in Florida and sometimes for serious money. There was a race Saturday night between too medium fast cars for about 100,000Y each. I have seen 10,000,000Y bet on 1 race between 2 very fast cars that run under 9  sec in the quarter mile. I have seen videos of some skyline racing on the street somewhere in Japan.Later

Osaka has Chikoshinmachi that was good on saturday nights. However u should be careful as there is only one exit and can get raided. Chiko is the place for Osaka street racing but it seems friendly. No gambling that I know.

[Pva_Glue]

:confused: what are the sirens held on with - double sided sticky tape? I've never seen those screens on cop cars from other countries (which travel just as fast during a persuit) so I'm curious why Japanese cop cars need a screen to stop the sirens blowing off!

in australian cop cars, its missing wind deflactor but it has on the dash saying "CAUTION this vehicle is equipped with roof-top lights please do not exceed 150Kph" - and I hear some one did and lost lights costs aproxx $4000 aust dolla. :Bahaha:

cheers

Joe

[Intensevil]

so does that mean if ur car does over 150kmh u can get away from the cops... *ponders*

[robert]

Man i got a couple of deals to share...

1. Got my first speeding ticket in the mail!!! it was a photo radar! 80km in a 50kn zone that was lovely! 50000 yen later.. next was about 7 years later no crap! in the middle of a rice field.. i came up on the back side of a speed trap 120km in a 10... uggg.. 50000 yen!

2. Ran a red light infront of a cop!! no fine just had to let the 18year old girls out of the car and leave the city!!

3. Out run them.. I live in country area and you can just jam on it if you got the balls.. i do not recommend this method but it is effective..

4. right lane passing!! Warning.

In any case.. if you get pulled ove then if you are in an area that has alot of gaijin.. then chances are that they speak ENOUGH jinglish to give you a ticket.. but in the more country areas then i recommend to just be nice and courtious and they might let you on your way..

In my deaings with the japanese police, they are kind and though... asking questions about childhood and if you were beaten or molested everything that you never thought about yourself... the part that realy got me when i got here 13years ago is that then patrol with their lights on... therefore even if you are busted then you will not know unless you hear that bull horn. I have seen then show up to drifts and drag races at the ol' air port and the mountains.. but NEVER seen them getting heavy on the highways or the events. I guess that we are lucky in that way,, i Hear that the States and Aussy land is real bad in this respect.

[drift007]

ive been done 4 times now here.

1. parking ticket on an empty dead end street just near oosanbashi in yokohama at 3am in the morning. parked for 30 mins and bingo a 15000yen fine.

2. driving to work and parking in back streets for a year, i finally came back to my car and found a ticket for 15000yen again so started catching the train now instead.

3. illegal right hand turn. cop was in a car going the opposite direction and he got out on foot so i kept going intending on not stopping but saw another cop car further up in traffic so thought ahh and stopped. 7000yen

4. this is my NNNIIIICCEE story.. drifting in kawasaki at a place called higashi-oogi-jima.. had a couple of run ins there before but successfully eluded capture with the heavy right foot technique. Although this time i was down there with a bad clutch so just watching.. i parked on the side of the road and was sitting drinking a juice when some kids on scooters came over and started chatting.. after a bit of watching the drifting and having a chat the kid says hey thats strange theres a cop car just parked in the side street there, so i look over my left shoulder and think to myself HOMETIME!! so i casually got up and walked to my car, i get in and do a u-turn to drive away from the cop car and go home.......THEN...... cop cars 5 in front and 5 behind come out and block the road off and im like AHHH FCUK.. but i wasnt drifting so i thought no problems here.. then i notice a whole bunch of ppl, like 20 or so in plain clothes pop-up out of no where with video cameras pointing at my car and they see me n start with the GAIJIN GAIJIN stuff... im like ok and they direct me to park my car... THIS IS WHERE THINGS BECAME EXCITING... they ask for my license which was an international at the time.. so i whip it out of the glove box where it has layed dormant for the whole time i had my car, but as im handing it over i notice the expirary date was 7 days earlier!!!!! so now im shitting bricks but the officer was so angry and just shouting TICKET!! 2 TICKETS!! at me that i thought i was safe and he wouldnt check the date being so angry and all... i was right!!! BUT step in undercover calm police woman who takes the license and gives it a good look, im trying to be casual just as i hear her say to the other guy "kigen ga kirechatteruyo" "mu-menkyo , mu-menkyo" so im thinking GOODNIGHT... the conversation then went something along the lines of...

her: nihongo hanasen no?

me: huh? *with my best i dont understand face on*

her: namae wa?

me: daniel

her: nihon ni doregurai iru no?

me: umm about 2 years

her: kono kuruma wa anata no mono desuka?

me: yes its my car

her: nihongo wakaru jyan!

me: ahh e. e. e. mi.. mi.. mimi wa d d d dai jyouuu bu but i cant speak *while

shaking my ear

since i didnt have a valid license and i was making conversation difficult in an attempt to be let go they took me to the station... a cop needed to drive my car so they sent one guy over but he was scared and said he coulnt drive it so then another guy did... got to the station at which point they wanted to contact my wife (japanese) to see if i could or couldnt speak japanese but luckily i shot of a phone mail saying "big trouble, i dont speak japanese".. i hear the police woman taking to my wife on the phone asking if i could speak japanese and that i seemed to understand but only answered in english.. luckily the wife played along, but i ended up in the station until morning when my wife came to translate my statement.. the statement was fun as they were trying really hard but i wouldnt speak any japanese, the wife came and they said to translate the japanese statement they wrote into english for me.. i already knew what it said and so i coached my wife through it and we got out of there with a be careful and your ticket will be in the mail.....

they said they were giving me 2 tickets for "illegal u-turns" and one for " no license" with a combined total of about 150,000yen which had me worried BUT...

THE GOOD NEWS.. to date i havent recieved anything in the mail!!!!!!!!!!!!!

long post sorry, but this is my best ticket story from japan..

[Evo_Lee]

robert, not bad for 13 years...I mean still unlucky to pay on 4 occassions but staying out of trouble.

drift007, dunno how long you been here but that is pretty bad...take it easy.

I shan't tell you how I've escaped 2 parking tickets, one week after the other on the same street, eluded an illegal 1/4mile and drift event...not that I frequent those event much. But if Jeff from C-Red gets on he may tell you all about it .

Though I should mention again Osaka cops are the most lenient in Japan, there was a new article last year which the police commissioner said there are a set of uniform rules for all Japan but Osaka police also go by a set of their own rules ...course with the revamp of new stricter rules all this is set to change. Don't forget fella zero alcohol level as before but fine is now increased to 300,000yen...not worth the risk!

Stay safe, keep out of trouble and enjoy what we can get away with over here by playing their rules.

[Evo_Lee]

robert, not bad for 13 years...I mean still unlucky to pay on 4 occassions but staying out of trouble with only 4 occasions.

drift007, dunno how long you been here but that is pretty unlucky especially the last one...take it easy.

I shan't say how lucky I've escaped 2 parking tickets, one week after the other on the same street, eluded an illegal 1/4mile and drift event...not that I frequent those events much (but if Jeff (C-Red) gets on he may tell you all about it ) and doing 130km/h in a 80km/h speedlimit section of the Chugoku highway with the BNR34 cop trailing me and the cop over the speaker telling me to keep to the left lane if I'm not overtaking...that was a close one as I don't even know where they came out from.

Though I should mention again Osaka cops are the most lenient in Japan, there was a new article last year which the police commissioner said there are a set of uniform rules for all Japan but Osaka police also go by a set of their own rules ...course with the revamp of new stricter rules all this is set to change. Don't forget fellas zero alcohol level as before but fine is now increased to 300,000yen...not worth the risk!

Stay safe, keep out of trouble and enjoy what we can get away with over here by playing their rules.

[Demon Dave]

I've been driving 10 years: 5 in England and 5 here. Never got a ticket of any kind Not one. Never been stopped by police either.

**expecting to pulled over now I've said that**

[DaiOni]

first encounter with the police here had nothing to do with cars - we were having a party down at the beach which got a little out of hand - drunk as monkeys we thought it would be funnier to use the lame japanese fireworks (mostly bottle rockets) to shoot at each other. Unfortunately the cops caught us mid-battle. They brought the ticket book out, but when they saw we were gaijin, got off with a caution.

second encounter was a few weeks ago. Was late for work, so I was driving about 20km over the limit and overtaking down the main road (no-overtaking zone). Unfortunately one of the cars I overtook was a cop on his way to work (and proceeded to overtake the cars in front of him).

When I arrived at work he blocked me off in the car park - I had no idea it was a cop and got out looking angry - then noticed the uniform... He started going on about 'multiple offences' - by then, I knew I was in the sh1t.

Handed over my licence (full japanese licence) and admitted I spoke/understood some nihongo (two things I always said I would never do). He wanted me to go to the central police station - that's where I got lucky. I told him I had no idea where it was. By this stage our conversation had been in patchy japanese/english - and when he realised he would have to give complicated directions, I could see in his eyes that look of 'oh sh1t, how do I say that in english???', I continued with more rapid gomens and sumimasens, a little bowing, and basic pleading - and he mumbled 'okay, caution', and left.

Very, very lucky.

Unfortunately - I was in the school carpark - and it was morning meeting time, so the entire school staff was standing at the windows and watching the entire ordeal :Oops:

[Sciby]

Lol, always knew you were a troublemaker, Daioni.

Were there any repercussions from the whole school seeing it?

[DaiOni]

Luckily, it wasn't my base school, just a visit school - afaik, nothing has come of it. I was just asked 'are you okay?'

[Sciby]

Should have clutched at one eye, started limping and screamed "POLICE BRUTALITY!" :bonk:

[yukz2daizzo]

hmmm. i was driving heading towards aomori 2 months ago and a cop pulled me over, i was driving a military pickup truck, the plate is weird looking, like 00B01283 some stuff like that, and we "can't understand japanese" he said i was going 80 over, i was just doing 160 on an 80, hehehe. but sure enough we cant understand each other, they just let us go.

about the speed traps and cameras, we got away with the swinging plates in the front and it really works. i recommend it, 1000 yen from autobacs. when we did the video shoot with newera imports we just took the plates off.