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kōban

small neighborhood police station found in Japan
Class type of: neighbourhood police office Q1202146

Facts

7 properties
Country
Japan[2]
Subclass of
neighbourhood police office
Hashtag
交番[8]
Native label
交番[5]
Quantity
6,509, 6,260[3][4]
Revised Hepburn romanization
kōban[6]
Transliteration or transcription
kōban[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en kōban en Police Box ar كوبان es Kōban es Koban es Sistema Koban fa کبان (پاسگاه) fi Koban fr Koban ja kōban ja KOBAN ja 交番 ja 派出所 ko 고반 ru Кобан th โคบัง tr koban zh 公安派出所 zh 分駐所 zh 機動派出所
🔖 Identifiers · 5
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Koban (police box) from Sudo-cho.jpg ↗
Freebase ID
/m/051g4c
NDL Authority ID
01171074
Topic's main category
Category:Kobans
Zhihu topic ID
19662795

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Summary

kōban is a type of neighbourhood police office[1].

Related Entities

Japan

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [1] ↑ . Tratado sobre la seguridad pública. wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . White Paper on Police. npa.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . soumu.go.jp. Retrieved . soumu.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . The Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . BS 4812:1972. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 12d ago · 台北派大星 · 2026-11-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Quantity → 6,509, 6,260
    Transliteration or transcription → kōban, koban
    Country → Japan
    Topic's main category → Category:Kobans
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Added [zh-tw] description: 警察分局之下的基層地方據點"
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