SHIZUOKA -- Shizuoka Prefectural Police have warned that toy guns circulating as crane games machine prizes in the region are potentially lethal if modified or loaded with real bullets, and are urging ...

Before World War Two, the national police in Japan were used substantially as an enforcement agency for political reasons. After the war this changed, and the police were re-formed with a vision of ...

Japan's police are urging people to surrender toy guns capable of firing real bullets by December 31. Some were distributed ...

Japan’s police began a campaign to cull bears after amended rules permitting them the use of rifles to kill the animals took effect on Thursday amid near-daily attacks. Japan is reeling from an ...

Police in Japan can from Thursday use rifles to shoot bears after strict gun laws were revised to help authorities battle a spate of fatal attacks that also prompted the US embassy in Tokyo to issue a ...

Correct Answer: D) The toy guns can fire metal bullets and are potentially lethal ...

Japan will allow riot police to shoot bears with rifles in a revision of its strict gun laws announced on Thursday as authorities battle a record number of fatal attacks.