Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department has added a new feature to its Digi Police crime prevention app that blocks incoming calls from international numbers and those believed to have been used for special fraud. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/01/japan/tokyo-police-app-fraud-block/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #japanesepolice #mpd #apps #fraud
A hypothesis about US infrastructure/politics:
Amtrak continues to exist for the same reason the Democratic Party exists—to make the alternatives (respectively: driving/flying, the Republican Party) look reasonable.
(If American governance was sensible, the feds would have dropped about $1Tn on building out a modern, high speed, electrified, grade-separated network no later than 1980 and would now be in a whose-trains-are-faster-and-more-punctual race with China.)
@cstross
There MUST be some kind of "pandemic" at global scale among politicians.😒 #mpd (madpoliticiandesease)
In germany the trainsystem got worse + worse the last decades. Up to something like, a local trainline had a very bad rate of running late very often. So it was decided to - not improve but to give up providing that tranconnection alltogether.
Btw. it's nowadays not uncommon train(connection)s are slowed down because of "traffic jams" (1 track for passengertrains + freighttrains). Wtf!
Tokyo police have raided the operator of Momuri, a company that helps people quit their jobs, on suspicion of violating the attorneys law. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/23/japan/crime-legal/japan-police-raid-quitting-help-firm/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #mpd #jobs #momuri
The Tokyo police admitted Thursday that it made a "serious mistake" in accusing executives of a spray dryer firm of illegally exporting equipment that could be converted into weapons. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/07/japan/crime-legal/japan-police-illegal-investigation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #mpd #ohkawarakakohki
Police in Japan have nearly doubled their personnel who handle cases of lone wolves since former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot dead by one in July 2022. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/10/japan/crime-legal/japanese-police-lone-offender-countermeasures/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #npa #mpd #shinzoabe #2025upperhouseelection