Points of Crime Prevention

• Hold your bag or luggage on the opposit side of the roadway.
• Avoid walking on quiet back streets. Walk on busy main streets as much as possible.
• Have a cover (crime prevention net, etc.) on the carrier or basket of your bicycle.
• Be careful of motorcycles and bicycles coming from behind you.
• Stop talking on the phone, or writing emails while walking; it is incredibly dangerous as it distracts you from your surroundings.

Points of Crime Prevention

• Attach multiple locks to your bike.
• When parking your motorcycle, do not forget to remove the ignition key, lock the handlebars, and place a wire lock (or a bar lock) on your motorcycle.
• Park your motorcycle in a designated parking place, not on the road.

Points of Crime Prevention

Be sure to properly close your doors! Everything starts with being sure your doors are properly closed!

• Even if you are just stepping out for a second to throw out your garbage, be absolutely certain to close and lock your doors.
• Be sure that ALL entrances to your property are shut, including even small windows (like the one in many bathrooms).
• Even if it is "just the balcony", you must lock and shut it; no exceptions!
• Before going out or going to sleep, inspect each door and window and ensure that they are all locked and closed.

The Building Perimeter

• Maintain a mesh-type fence that ensures an unobstructed view of the surroundings
• Trim all shrubs to make sure there is no hiding place for suspicious people.
• Install sensor lighting to automatically illuminate dark places when someone enters your secure perimeter.
• Increase your surveillance ability by installing security cameras.
• Keep a dog and spread gravel around your secure perimeter; the gravel will produce noise, and the dog will make it difficult for them to get near your property.
• Leaving nothing outside that could be used to penetrate your secure perimeter (Garbage cans, ladders)

The Entrance ⁄ Kitchen Door ⁄ Etc...

• Switch the door and locks with anti-theft material that is difficult to destroy.
• Keep a light by your gate, and turn it on regularly when it becomes dark.
• Don't let them know you are away by letting the newspaper ⁄ mail pile up in the mailbox.

Windows ⁄ Sash

• Use anti-theft glass that is difficult to destroy
• Apply anti-theft film to existing glass to increase the difficulty in burglarizing your property.
• Install a Sash lock
• Waist-high windows should be fitted with crystal-lattice patterning.
• Install an auxiliary lock in addition to the normal crescent lock. This auxiliary should ideally be located above and below the sash
• Install a window buzzer that sounds an alarm if the glass is broken.

Molester

When you return to the house.

• Even if it is longer, take a bright road with more people on it.
• Stop talking on the phone, or listening to music through earphones while walking; it is incredibly dangerous as it distracts you from your surroundings.
• If it is very late, have someone from home meet you at the station or call a taxi.
• Just in case, keep a crime-prevention buzzer in your bag and carry it in your hand while walking.

For girls living alone

When entering the house.

Before Sleeping

For Visitors..

Protect yourself not to be a crime-victim to live at ease, and to live with safety in Japan.

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