Koban (police Box)
Koban may refer to: * , Japanese neighborhood police substation, sometimes called a "police box" * , a former Japanese coin * Koban culture The Koban culture or Kuban culture (c. 1200 to 350 BC), is a late Bronze Age and Iron Age culture of the northern and central Caucasus. It is preceded by the Colchian culture of the western Caucasus and the Kharachoi culture further east. It is ...

Kōban
A is a small neighborhood police station found in Japan. The term also refers to the smallest organizational unit in a modern Law enforcement in Japan, Japanese prefectural police force. Small kōban buildings, staffed by uniformed officers at around 6,000 locations across the country,''Enhancement plan of kōban functionality'' (今後の交番機能の強化対策の推進について)
, National Police Agency of Japan, viewed April 8, 2009 are the bases for community policing activities which complement the work of larger, central police stations. Although often translated into English as "police box", ''kōban'' bear little resemblance to the police boxes formerly found in the United Kingdom or the Fire alarm call box, police call bo ...
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Police Box
A police box is a public telephone kiosk or callbox for the use of members of the police, or for members of the public to contact the police. It was used in some countries, most widely in the United Kingdom throughout the 20th century from the early 1920s. Unlike an ordinary callbox, its telephone was located behind a hinged door so it could be used from the outside by anyone, and the interior of the box was, in effect, a miniature police station for use by police officers to read and fill in reports, take meal breaks and temporarily hold detainees until the arrival of transport. The typical British police box contained a telephone linked directly to the local police station, allowing patrolling officers to keep in contact with the station, reporting anything unusual or requesting help if necessary. A light on top of the box would flash to alert an officer that they were requested to contact the station.. Police boxes were usually blue, with the most notable exception being Gl ...
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Koban (coin)
The was a Japanese oval gold coin, cast on the order of Tokugawa Ieyasu in Edo period ('' Keichō'' era) feudal Japan and a part of Tokugawa coinage. History Minting of koban, '' Ōban'' and other coins began in year 1601 (year 5 of the '' Keichō'' era), signifying the beginning of the Tokugawa coinage. The '' Keichō'' era koban was issued with a face value of one ''ryō''. Despite the existence of other gold and silver coins at the time, through a series of reforms the Bakufu managed to stabilize the koban to ''ryō'' 1:1 valuation by the end of the seventeenth century. Nowadays, gold-foil cardboard versions of koban are sold as ''Engimono'' (縁起物, ''talisman/lucky charm'') at Shinto shrines. Foreign trade The Japanese economy before the mid-19th century was based largely on rice. The standard unit of measure was the koku, the amount of rice needed to feed one person for one year. Farmers made their tax payments of rice which eventually made its way into the coffers ...
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