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Oita Oita Godo Newspaper (morning edition on November 29, 2008)

At the police station, day time training had been droved by the power from the competition challenges of this year, the judo and kendo sport festival that held on 28^th, at Oita National Gym. There were 17 police men and the police men from each part of the head offices estimated around 38 teams per station or around 260 people who joined as participants. Each police station at a small scale were gathered .then divided as one group (6 people per group), two groups (3 people per group), after that is the provisional election league.

The judging tournament will be held for this contest. For policewomen will be judged by individual method. The incandescent competition was continuing through the long period of time, and at the meeting place the people who are colleagues, coworkers, or even their families also came and put the cheering voices to encourage them.

Comment: Wowww...in my home country we don't have judo or kendo competition as Japan do but we have kick boxing which can be applied to use for protecting or fighting the bad guys very well. It is a good idea though, think of how can all the policemen gather in one place and be harmonized as team work to pass to another contest round, such a challenging situation for them, I think this could make them feel close and can be a nice strategy to tighten up the working and collaboration system inside the each police station around Oita prefecture area to be safe and potential safety life of Oita people also.

PUNTHUCHAT Siripun

Thailand

APS3, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University