Japanese Girls in Police Uniform. Our friend Deena was going through our blog to see what we wrote years ago and, after reading our post on Japanese girls wearing police uniforms, she wondered aloud whether there are female police officers in Japan. Fair question, because there are countries that allow women in law enforcement agencies and there are those who don’t. Since we did not know the answer to her question, we went digging and discovered that Japan does have female police officers.
However, according to a Kyodo News report earlier this year, there is a shortage of female recruits which is why the Fukuoka police are getting creative in their recruitment drive by doing a fashion show to drum up interest:
The fashion show is just one of the methods the police force in the southwestern prefecture of Fukuoka are utilizing in order to increase the percentage of its female recruits, the lowest among the country’s prefectural police for the past two years.
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