With the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics less than a year away, Tokyo police are ratcheting up efforts to strengthen foreign language assistance.Aiming to improve police officers' ability to provide directions, handling lost property claims and other needs in foreign languages, the Metropolitan Police Department has been giving them English conversation lessons. It has also been teaching them how to use a 29-language translation application, which officers stationed at "koban" police boxes can utilize on their mobile devices.These recently introduced efforts are complementary steps to ease t…READ FULL ARTICLE
