Word: kawano
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...officer who helped elderly pedestrians pass the train crossing, and kept an eye out for the drunken salarymen who, buzzed from a night of office imbibing, threatened to take headers off the platform. "He held the safety of the people in this community as his top priority," says Hiroshi Kawano, a local grocer. Miyamoto was an ordinary omawari-san - Mr. Patrolman - one of thousands of cops who man the kobans, the police booths, found in even the smallest Tokyo neighborhoods and many of which the city, in a cost-cutting measure, may soon shut down...
...kobans, omawari like him will become a vanishing breed in Tokyo. The government needs to cut its budget, but it will be a shame if cops like Miyamoto are lost in the process. "Police officers are always in uniform so there's usually some distance from us," says Kawano the grocer. "But he wasn't like that. He was more like a pal." He was also a hero. Reported by Yuki Oda/Tokyo
...very easy to follow—even for an international student,” joked Samito Kawano, who is enrolled in IEL’s English for the MBA program...