2023/10/15

The Kyoto Prefectural Police Railway Police Force held a celemony to present a letter of appreciation on Thursday, September 28th.

Kyoto University of Foreign Studies (KUFS) and Kyoto Career College of Foreign Languages (KCCFL) are collaborating on a multilingual project to create the chikan crime prevention leaflet “Zero Handbook for Chikan and Tosatsu” produced by the Kyoto Prefectural Police Railway Police Force. Students mainly translated it in five languages: English, Chinese, Portuguese, Korean, and Vietnamese, guided by the university faculty.

The railway police captain presented a letter of appreciation with the words of gratitude to the participating KUFS and KCCFL students for their contribution to crime prevention awareness through the project.

Afterwards, the participating students moved to the institute for International Exchange and conducted awareness activities.

“I got to know the words “chikan” and “tosatsu” do not exist in English,” a student from the Department of British and American Studies who was involved in translating the English version of the leaflet said, “I want foreigners to be aware of the reality that these crimes actually occur and to use this information to prevent and take countermeasures."

This event will also be featured on “Kyoto Ichinichi News 630,” NHK General TV.

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