Report: August 26 – September 2, 2026

Japan Protective Security Report (Weekly)

Report: August 26 – September 2, 2026
Published: Wednesday, September 2, 2026 (JST)

🔒 Section 1: Weekly Security News Summary

New 30 km/h Default Speed Limit on Japan's Narrow "Living Roads" Takes Effect Nationwide (September 1)

From September 1, 2026, the statutory speed limit on Japan's seikatsu dōro — narrow residential and neighbourhood streets generally under 5.5 metres wide with no centre line, no lane markings and no posted sign — dropped from 60 km/h to 30 km/h. Roads carrying a posted speed sign or road marking are unaffected and retain the posted figure. The National Police Agency and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department estimate the change touches roughly 70 percent of Japan's ordinary road network across national, prefectural and municipal roads. Enforcement began immediately, with excess-speed penalties applying against the new 30 km/h baseline.

Source: Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, Government of Japan Public Relations Office

💡Tips for Professionals:
This is the single most operationally consequential change for EP drivers in Japan this year. Secondary and tertiary routes — precisely the unmarked back streets EP teams favour for discreet arrivals, residence approaches and evasive re-routing — are now the slowest legal segments of any route plan. Re-time every existing residence, school-run and hotel-approach route card: a two-kilometre back-street leg that previously ran at 40–50 km/h now takes materially longer, and a licence suspension for a marginal overspeed would remove a driver from the detail mid-assignment. Brief all local and contracted drivers directly rather than assuming they have absorbed the change, and verify that vehicle navigation systems have been updated.

Two Chilean Nationals Arrested Over ¥200 Million Luxury Watch Smash-and-Grab at Nakano Broadway, Tokyo

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police announced on August 28 the arrest of two Chilean nationals, aged 23 and 33, on suspicion of stealing four Swiss luxury watches — Richard Mille and Patek Philippe pieces with a combined retail value of approximately ¥203.47 million — from a watch retailer on the first floor of the Nakano Broadway shopping complex in Nakano Ward. The pair allegedly shattered a display case near the store entrance with a hammer around 11:50 a.m. on August 25 and fled, leaving the hammer at the scene. Investigators traced them through security camera footage and located both men in Osaka City on the evening of August 27. One suspect admitted the offence and stated he intended to sell the watches and take the proceeds to his home country; the other has partially denied the allegations.

Source: Nikkei, NHK

💡Tips for Professionals:
This is a textbook transnational "watch-crime" pattern: a mobile foreign crew, daylight timing, a single high-value display target, hammer entry, sub-60-second dwell time, and immediate inter-city displacement to Osaka. The same crews that hit retail also target individuals wearing seven-figure timepieces in Ginza, Omotesando, Roppongi and Aoyama. Advise principals and family members to keep high-value watches off the wrist during unsecured walking movements and hotel lobby transits in Tokyo, and to treat a watch as a magnet requiring a covered wrist or a vehicle-based change. Reinforce with the detail that resistance is never the answer in a snatch: these crews prioritise speed over confrontation, and a compliant loss is recoverable while an injury is not.

Government Holds Disaster Prevention Day Exercise (September 1): PM and Full Cabinet Walk to the Kantei Under Tokyo Inland Earthquake Scenario

On September 1 — Japan's Disaster Prevention Day — the government conducted its annual comprehensive disaster management exercise. Ahead of the main drill, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and every cabinet minister travelled on foot to the Prime Minister's Office under a scenario in which a Tokyo inland earthquake had disabled vehicle movement. The principal exercise assumed a magnitude 8.3 earthquake off Tokachi, Hokkaido, producing maximum seismic intensity 7 and tsunami, with an Emergency Disaster Response Headquarters chaired by the Prime Minister linking by video conference to the governors of Hokkaido and Aomori. Separately, nine Tokyo-area prefectures and designated cities held a joint exercise involving roughly 150 organisations at the Kanagawa Prefectural Disaster Prevention Center in Atsugi, which the Prime Minister also inspected.

Source: Kanagawa Shimbun (Kanaloco), Ministry of Defense

💡Tips for Professionals:
The cabinet's on-foot movement drill is a direct statement of the planning assumption every EP team in Tokyo should share: in a major inland earthquake, the vehicle is unavailable and the plan becomes a walking plan. Build and physically walk a pedestrian evacuation route from each principal's residence, office and habitual venue to a designated hard rally point, and confirm it is achievable in business footwear. Keep a go-bag with water, a torch, a paper street map and a charged battery pack in every EP vehicle and residence — mobile networks and navigation apps are the first capabilities to fail. Use the annual September 1 exercise window as the fixed date to rehearse and refresh these plans.

Police Manpower Shortage Deepens: Applicant Numbers Halve in a Decade, MPD Short Roughly 3,000 Officers

National Police Agency data released in late August showed that the number of candidates sitting police recruitment examinations nationwide last year fell to less than half the figure recorded ten years earlier, and to roughly one-fifth of the 2003 peak. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is the worst affected force in the country: against an authorised strength of 43,619 officers it carried a shortfall of about 3,060 as of April, a fill rate of 93.0 percent against a national average of 97.1 percent. Reporting attributes the decline to competition from Tokyo's private-sector labour market, mid-career attrition, and public perception of the work as dangerous and physically punishing. Forces are responding with relaxed age and fitness criteria, mid-career recruitment tracks and pay increases, and officials acknowledge measurable effects such as longer 110-call response times.

Source: News On Japan, Mainichi Shimbun

💡Tips for Professionals:
Do not plan on the historic assumption that Japanese police response is near-instantaneous everywhere. Longer 110 response times materially change the arithmetic of the gap between an incident starting and public assistance arriving, which is the interval private security must cover on its own. Re-baseline residence and venue emergency plans on a realistic — not idealised — police response window, and increase reliance on on-site capability: hardened entry control, a defensible safe room, and a rehearsed internal alert procedure. For corporate security managers, this also strengthens the case for local liaison relationships built in advance rather than at the moment of need.

Yokohama Mayor Resigns Over Power-Harassment Findings, Triggering a Snap Mayoral Election in Japan's Second-Largest City

Yokohama Mayor Takeharu Yamanaka announced on August 28 that he would resign, taking responsibility for a power-harassment scandal that a third-party investigative panel substantiated in a report published on July 30. The panel found that the great majority of the conduct alleged by a former city personnel director — including threats framed around transfers and "purges" and personal abuse directed at staff — was factual and constituted harassment across seven categories. Yamanaka did not state whether he will stand in the resulting election. Under the Public Offices Election Act, a mayoral election must be held in principle within 50 days of the vacancy taking effect, placing a full campaign in Japan's second-largest city on the near-term calendar.

Source: Nikkei, Kanagawa Shimbun (Kanaloco)

💡Tips for Professionals:
A snap mayoral election means weeks of street-level campaigning across Yokohama — candidates on unsecured pavements, sound trucks, and dense unscreened crowds outside stations such as Yokohama, Sakuragicho, Kannai and Shin-Yokohama. Japan's two most serious recent attacks on politicians both occurred at exactly this kind of open street event, and Kanagawa Prefectural Police will surge resources onto candidate protection at the expense of routine coverage. EP teams with principals resident or operating in Yokohama should expect ad-hoc road closures and station-front congestion at short notice, and should build alternative approaches to venues near major station plazas. If a client is any kind of public figure appearing in Yokohama during the campaign, treat crowd-facing appearances as a distinct threat category and control approach lines accordingly.

Okinawa Gubernatorial Election Formally Announced (August 27); Six Candidates Contest September 13 Vote

The Okinawa gubernatorial election was formally announced on August 27, with polling and counting set for September 13. Six candidates — the incumbent and five challengers — have entered what reporting characterises as effectively a two-way race, with US base policy and the ongoing Nansei Islands defence build-up as central issues. The campaign period places two weeks of intensive street-level campaigning across Naha and the wider prefecture, running through September 12.

Source: Nikkei, Okinawa Times

💡Tips for Professionals:
Okinawa gubernatorial campaigns reliably draw organised base-related demonstration activity, particularly near Camp Schwab/Henoko, Kadena Air Base and Futenma, and around Naha city-centre rally points such as Kokusai-dori and the prefectural government precinct. EP operators supporting US-affiliated, defence-sector or media principals in Okinawa between now and September 13 should conduct daily route checks, avoid gate-adjacent roads at shift-change hours, and pre-identify alternative approaches to Naha Airport that bypass Route 58 rally corridors. Advise principals against public comment on base issues for the duration, and assume elevated media and activist attention on any visibly foreign-associated motorcade.

🌏 Section 2: Japan–Foreign Nations Tension Monitor

1. China – Tension Level: High

Bilateral relations remain at their lowest point in years, with Beijing continuing to demand retraction of Prime Minister Takaichi's November 2025 Diet remarks on a Taiwan contingency and characterising the relationship as facing serious difficulty. Chinese Coast Guard vessels maintained near-continuous presence in the contiguous zone around the Senkaku Islands through August, with a four-vessel territorial-water incursion of roughly ninety minutes recorded on August 14 and long consecutive-day runs in the contiguous zone logged earlier in the month; several vessels were observed carrying what appeared to be autocannon armament. In the air domain, the Joint Staff reported on August 19 that a Chinese TB-001 reconnaissance/strike drone and a Y-9 intelligence-collection aircraft transited between the Danjo Islands off Nagasaki and waters off Okinawa the previous day, prompting Air Self-Defense Force scrambles. Japan's 2026 defence white paper, released August 4, frames the China challenge as one requiring a response drawing on Japan's overall national strength.

Source: Japan Coast Guard, NHK, The Japan Times

💡Tips for Professionals: Chinese-national and Chinese-affiliated principals in Japan, and Japanese principals with China-facing business exposure, sit on both sides of an unusually charged environment; keep movement patterns unpredictable around the Chinese Embassy district (Minami-Azabu 3-chome, Minato Ward) and consular facilities. Note that the China Festival at Yoyogi Park on September 5–6 (see Section 4) is the single most likely flashpoint in Tokyo this week for both nationalist counter-protest and confrontational street activity.

2. North Korea – Tension Level: High

No launch was confirmed during this reporting week, but August was an active month. The Ministry of Defense recorded ballistic missile launches on August 6, August 12 — at least one missile flying roughly 690 km east before falling outside Japan's exclusive economic zone in the Sea of Japan — and August 20, when multiple missiles fired from an inland site reached a maximum altitude of about 90 km and travelled some 320 km before splashing down outside the EEZ near the Korean Peninsula's east coast. Japan protested each launch as a violation of UN Security Council resolutions and coordinated analysis with the United States and South Korea. The current launch tempo means a further event within days is a reasonable planning assumption rather than a remote possibility.

Source: Ministry of Defense, Jiji Press

💡Tips for Professionals: J-ALERT activates nationwide on any launch assessed as potentially affecting Japanese territory, and will wake and alarm every principal and team member simultaneously, typically in the pre-dawn hours. Confirm that every device on the detail has J-ALERT and NHK World alerts enabled and, where the principal is a non-Japanese speaker, that an English-language alert channel is configured — an unexplained emergency siren at 05:00 in a foreign country generates avoidable panic.

3. South Korea – Tension Level: Moderate

Working-level relations under the Takaichi and Lee administrations continue to improve, but the Takeshima/Dokdo dispute remains a persistent irritant. On August 6 the South Korean military conducted its routine defence exercise in waters around Takeshima, drawing a strong protest from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau. On August 8 reporting indicated a South Korean vessel had conducted what appeared to be a survey around Takeshima inside Japan's claimed EEZ, prompting a further Japanese protest. No incident specific to this reporting week was recorded.

Source: NHK, Akita Sakigake Shimpo

💡Tips for Professionals: Territorial friction with Seoul generates small, generally orderly and permit-based demonstrations rather than violent disorder, typically at the South Korean Embassy (Minami-Azabu, Minato Ward), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Kasumigaseki) and Shimane Prefectural offices. The operational effect is congestion and police cordons rather than threat; plan alternative approaches to Kasumigaseki and Azabu addresses on days when a protest is announced.

4. Russia – Tension Level: Elevated

No airspace violation or bilateral incident specific to this reporting week was recorded in Japanese official releases. Russian military aviation nonetheless remains one of the two principal drivers of Air Self-Defense Force scrambles alongside China, with sustained activity around Hokkaido, the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk, and the bilateral relationship remains frozen over Ukraine-related sanctions and the Northern Territories.

Source: Joint Staff, Ministry of Defense

💡Tips for Professionals: The practical EP exposure is low and largely confined to Hokkaido and northern Honshu, where scramble activity and occasional Northern Territories-related demonstration activity occur. Russian-affiliated principals in Japan should anticipate a level of official attention and media interest disproportionate to any physical threat; keep itineraries closely held.

🌋 Section 3: Natural Disaster Report

1. Record Rainfall and Emergency Warnings in Aomori and Akita Prefectures — Ongoing (September 1–2)

Extremely heavy rain struck the northern Tohoku region overnight into September 2. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued "record short-duration heavy rain" bulletins for Aomori Prefecture after approximately 90 mm of rain fell in one hour near Ajigasawa Town and Fukaura Town in the hour to 03:20 on September 2, with a further estimated 90 mm in one hour near Hirosaki City by 04:00. Aomori City issued evacuation orders at around 04:30 on September 2 on the basis of elevated landslide risk, and Level 4 landslide warnings were in force for Tsugaru City, Ajigasawa, Goshogawara and neighbouring municipalities. Emergency warning-level conditions were reported across parts of Aomori and Akita on September 2. This event is live and conditions are evolving.

Source: Japan Weather Association (tenki.jp), Toonippo

2. Record Rainfall Disaster in Ishikawa and Toyama Prefectures (August 26–29)

A linear precipitation band stalled over the Hokuriku region on August 26–27, producing rainfall the Japan Meteorological Agency assessed as exceeding a 1,000-year return interval. Twelve-hour totals to 08:30 on August 27 reached 316.0 mm at Hakui City, Ishikawa, and 317.0 mm at Imizu City, Toyama; 24-hour totals by 13:00 reached 354.0 mm at Imizu and 337.5 mm at Hakui — more than 1.5 times the previous records at both sites. Level 5 Heavy Rain Emergency Warnings were issued for Hakui, Shika, Hodatsushimizu and Nakanoto in Ishikawa and for Imizu in Toyama, with Level 5 emergency safety orders issued between roughly 06:20 and 06:40 on August 27. Multiple small and medium rivers reached dangerous levels near-simultaneously, causing residential flooding and landslides; communities were cut off from surrounding areas, and drones were used on August 30 to deliver food and supplies to an isolated mountain settlement in Himi City, Toyama, after a landslide severed road access. Combined social and economic impact across the five worst-affected municipalities has been estimated at approximately ¥950 million to ¥3.87 billion.

Source: NHK, Japan Weather Association (tenki.jp), Weathernews

3. Typhoon No. 24 (Krovanh) — Slow-Moving, Approaching (Forecast September 3–7)

As of 06:45 on September 2, Typhoon No. 24 was near-stationary south of Japan at approximately 22°40'N, 132°10'E, with a central pressure of 996 hPa and maximum sustained winds of 18 m/s. The Japan Meteorological Agency forecast places the system west-southwest of Minami-Daito Island on September 3, in the East China Sea by September 5, and south of Japan again by September 7. Strong wind and high wave warnings are already active for the Okinawa region, and warning-level heavy rainfall is possible across a broad band from Kanto through Kyushu between September 4 and 6, with associated landslide and flooding risk. The system's slow movement means a prolonged rather than sharp impact.

Source: Japan Weather Association (tenki.jp) / Japan Meteorological Agency

4. Seismic Activity

No earthquake of magnitude 5.0 or greater occurred in Japan during this reporting period. The largest event was a magnitude 4.8 earthquake off the eastern coast of Chiba Prefecture at 00:17 on August 30, registering maximum seismic intensity 4. A magnitude 4.6 event off eastern Aomori on August 28 registered intensity 3. No tsunami advisories were issued.

Source: Japan Weather Association (tenki.jp) / Japan Meteorological Agency

💡Tips for Professionals:
Northern Tohoku is an active disaster zone as this report is published — treat all non-essential travel to Aomori and Akita as postponed until JMA warnings are downgraded, and expect JR and expressway suspensions with little notice. For the Hokuriku recovery zone (Hakui, Nakanoto, Hodatsushimizu, Shika, Imizu, Himi), road closures, debris clearance and emergency vehicle movement will disrupt ground routes for weeks; verify accessibility directly with local authorities rather than relying on navigation apps, which lag closures badly. For Typhoon No. 24, the slow track means the airline disruption window is wide rather than sharp: build 48-hour flexibility into any Okinawa or Kyushu itinerary between September 4 and 8, and be aware that Nansei Islands routes cancel earlier and resume later than mainland routes. Across all three events, the compounding risk is heat — the Fukui and Hokuriku clean-up on August 31 proceeded under a heatstroke alert — so any principal conducting a site visit, inspection or media appearance in a flood-affected area needs hydration, shade planning and a cooled vehicle staged nearby.

📅 Section 4: Upcoming Major Events & Traffic Restrictions

Tokyo

• 97th Intercity Baseball Championship (都市対抗野球大会) – Through September 6, 2026
  • Location: Tokyo Dome, Bunkyo Ward (Suidobashi / Korakuen)
  • Traffic: No formal road closures announced. Heavy pedestrian surges at Suidobashi (JR/Toei Mita), Korakuen (Tokyo Metro Marunouchi/Namboku) and Kasuga stations at session start and finish; Hakusan-dori and Sotobori-dori congested around gate times. Corporate spectator coaches occupy kerbside space around the dome complex.
  • Source: Tokyo Dome
• Yomiuri Giants vs. Chunichi Dragons – September 8–10, 2026 (gates 16:00, first pitch 18:00)
  • Location: Tokyo Dome, Bunkyo Ward
  • Traffic: Peak arrival congestion 16:30–18:00 and a concentrated dispersal surge 20:30–21:30 across Suidobashi and Korakuen stations and the Tokyo Dome City complex.
  • Source: Tokyo Dome
• China Festival 2026 (チャイナフェスティバル2026) – September 5–6, 2026, 10:00–20:00 (opening ceremony 11:00 on September 5)
  • Location: Yoyogi Park Event Plaza, outdoor stage and Keyaki Namiki, Shibuya Ward
  • Traffic: No announced road closures, but the festival occupies the Event Plaza, the outdoor stage and the Keyaki Namiki avenue simultaneously, leaving no practical vehicle loading or set-down access on the park's eastern frontage. Expect heavy pedestrian flow between Harajuku/Meiji-jingumae and Yoyogi-koen/Yoyogi-hachiman stations, and kerbside congestion on Inokashira-dori and around the NHK Hall approach. Given the current state of Japan–China relations (Section 2), the Metropolitan Police Department can be expected to deploy for counter-demonstration and right-wing sound-truck activity in the park periphery.
  • Source: China Festival 2026 Official Site

💡Tips for Professionals (Tokyo): The dominant Tokyo variable this week is not a road closure but the new 30 km/h residential-street limit — re-time every back-street leg before it costs you an arrival window. For Yoyogi Park on September 5–6, treat the China Festival as a genuine protest-risk venue rather than a food fair: do not route principals through the park periphery, use Shibuya-side rather than Harajuku-side approaches to nearby addresses, and check the MPD demonstration notice board before finalising any Shibuya or Jingumae itinerary for that weekend. For Tokyo Dome events, set down at the Kasuga or Iidabashi side and walk in rather than attempting Hakusan-dori kerbside within an hour of gate times.

Osaka

• Osaka Classic 2026 (大阪クラシック2026) – September 6–12, 2026 (opens September 6)
  • Location: 34 venues across the Nakanoshima and Midosuji districts, including Osaka City Hall entrance hall, Osaka City Central Public Hall, Festival Hall, The Phoenix Hall and Sumitomo Life Izumi Hall; 60 performances in total
  • Traffic: No full road closures announced. An "Osaka Classic Base" hub with information centre, instrument-experience area and food vehicles is installed in the plaza in front of Osaka City Central Public Hall on September 6–7, with an outdoor student performance at the Public Hall's main entrance on September 6. Expect pedestrian congestion and restricted kerbside access along the Nakanoshima riverfront and Midosuji office-building frontages during performance hours.
  • Source: City of Osaka, Osaka Classic Official Site

💡Tips for Professionals (Osaka): Osaka Classic is a distributed, free-admission event with open lobby venues inside working office buildings — meaning unscreened public access to spaces principals may otherwise treat as secure. If a principal's Nakanoshima or Midosuji office hosts a performance, confirm with building management which lobbies are open to the public and on what schedule, and adjust arrival routing to a service or basement entrance for that week. Set down on the Yodoyabashi or Kitahama side rather than the Public Hall frontage on September 6–7.

Nagoya / Aichi

• Furusato Zenkoku Kenjinkai Matsuri 2026 (ふるさと全国県人会まつり) – September 5–6, 2026, 09:30–17:00 daily (held in light rain)
  • Location: Edion Hisaya Hiroba, Hisaya Odori Park, Naka Ward, central Nagoya. Thirty-nine prefectural associations participating.
  • Traffic: Large open-air festival in the central park corridor. No announced road closures, but heavy pedestrian volume around Sakae, Hisaya-odori and Yabacho subway stations, and kerbside congestion along the park frontage on Hisaya-odori.
  • Source: Aichi Now (Aichi Prefecture official tourism site)
• Aichi International Women's Film Festival 2026 – September 2–6, 2026
  • Location: Will Aichi (Aichi Prefectural Women's Center), Higashi Ward, and Midland Square Cinema, Naka Ward, Nagoya
  • Traffic: Venue-local congestion only; no announced road closures. Note that the Midland Square venue sits in the Meieki high-rise cluster, where kerbside set-down is already tightly controlled.
  • Source: Aichi Prefecture Lifelong Learning Information System, Nagoya City Official Tourism Information
• Look-ahead — 20th Asian Games (Aichi–Nagoya 2026) – September 19 – October 4, 2026; torch relay in Nagoya City on September 12, 13 and 16
  • Location: Venues across Aichi Prefecture and Nagoya City
  • Traffic: The City of Nagoya has published a dedicated traffic restriction portal. Torch relay segments will close streets in several Nagoya wards on the dates above. Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress are scheduled to visit Aichi Prefecture on September 19–20 for the opening, which will bring Imperial Guard and Aichi Prefectural Police protective operations and associated road controls.
  • Source: City of Nagoya – Aichi-Nagoya 2026 traffic restrictions, Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Organising Committee

💡Tips for Professionals (Nagoya): Nagoya's security posture will tighten progressively from this week onward as Asian Games preparations advance, and this is the moment to complete advance work rather than in mid-September. Book accommodation and confirm venue access arrangements now — hotel inventory in central Nagoya will be effectively unavailable from mid-September, and any principal travelling to Aichi during the Games window should be routed through Chubu Centrair with a pre-arranged vehicle rather than relying on rail. Note that the Imperial visit on September 19–20 will generate short-notice, non-negotiable road closures in central Nagoya with no practical workaround; build itineraries around it, not through it.

Naha / Okinawa

• Okinawa Gubernatorial Election campaign period – Through September 12, 2026 (polling September 13)
  • Location: Prefecture-wide; principal rally activity in Naha (Kokusai-dori, prefectural government precinct, major station and shopping-centre frontages) and around US base perimeters
  • Traffic: Rolling sound-truck activity across all major arterials during daylight hours; ad-hoc pedestrian congestion at candidate street appearances; potential demonstration activity on Route 58 and near Camp Schwab/Henoko, Kadena and Futenma
  • Source: Okinawa Times election guide, Nikkei

💡Tips for Professionals (Okinawa): Add 30 minutes to every Naha Airport transfer for the duration of the campaign — Route 58 and Route 331 congestion is unpredictable when demonstration or rally activity is underway, and the airport approach has no genuine alternative. Avoid base-gate roads at shift-change hours entirely. Typhoon No. 24 compounds this: with warnings already active for the Okinawa region and a slow-moving track, any Okinawa itinerary between September 3 and 8 needs a fallback plan for a cancelled flight and an extra night's accommodation held in Naha.

Sapporo

• Look-ahead — Sapporo Autumn Fest 2026 – September 11 – October 3, 2026, 10:00–20:30 (last orders 20:00)
  • Location: Odori Park, seven zones, Chuo Ward, Sapporo
  • Traffic: Approximately 300 vendors and typically over two million visitors across the run. Odori Park frontage roads and the Odori/Sapporo station underground concourse become severely congested each evening once the event opens next week.
  • Source: JAPAN 47 GO (Japan Travel and Tourism Association)

💡Tips for Professionals (Sapporo): Sapporo is quiet this week, but the Odori Park corridor closes to practical vehicle movement from September 11. If a principal has business in central Sapporo from next week, complete route surveys now and shift any Odori-adjacent set-down point to the Kita-Ichijo or Minami-Ichijo side before the event opens.

Japan Protective Security Report (Weekly)
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