As crime dries up, Japan’s police hunt for things to do (2017)
I was in a massively busy market street in Dotonbori, Osaka, at night.<p>A police whistle shrieked, and I turned and saw a police officer absolutely <i>booking it</i> through the crowd, shoving through people, shouting at some perpetrator.<p>My American-cultured brain thought, &quot;This is it, someone&#x27;s about to die.&quot;  It seriously freaked me out.<p>I watched, and he caught up to... a guy on a bike.  It was a no-biking zone.  He gave the guy a ticket.