AFP presents a photo package of 11 pictures of police boxes, known as "koban" in Japan.

Japan's system of police boxes, miniature police stations known as "kobans", can be found outside nearly every train station, or in every urban neighbourhood nationwide. Placed there as a convenience to provide services to each community, conduct patrols and make routine visits, the community officers who work there help make Japan one of the safest countries in the world.

According to literature from Japan's National Police Academy, there were over 6,000 kobans nationally as of 2018, to go along with over 6,000 sub-stations.