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Is the police museum "Pipo-kun" cute?

[Koedo Itabashi] May 30, 2013 09:00

A world of mascot characters, where Yuru characters, mysterious characters, and Kimo characters are crowded.

The Metropolitan Police Department's mascot "Pipo-kun" was born on April 17, 1987.

The career occupies the position of the heavyweight in the character world.

The Metropolitan Police Department, which is familiar and trusted.

"Pepo-kun" was named by combining people's "People" and police's "Polys".

But a little look, it's a mysterious creature.

The whole body is yellow, the ears are large, and there are horns.

I wonder if this is cute.

If you divide it clearly, I personally do not want to put it in a "cute area".

 

3-5-1, Kyobashi, Chuo-ku

A short walk from Exit 1 of Kyobashi Station on the Ginza Line.

There is a police museum.

At the entrance, there is a big peapo-kun.

A smiling couple with a child approached me.

A child who saw Peapo suddenly began to cry.

I'm trying to get away with myself.

In the whole, the expression is drawn as if you encountered "Namahage".

That's right, if you look at it for the first time, you'll react like that.

(Conclusion, Pepo-kun was not a cute character.)

 

Children are dressed in police officers' uniforms and pose salutes.

Only the parents who are looking at the camera are happy.

The child is extremely annoying.

It still takes time to wake up to cosplay.

There are also uniforms for white motorcycle members.

When I got on a white motorcycle with a sidecar or a helicopter on display, my child finally overflowed with smiles.

 

By the way, the history and activities of the Metropolitan Police Department are classified and displayed from a multifaceted perspective, such as the Police Museum, the official name of the Metropolitan Police Department Public Relations Center.

On TV, items that you can see in movies are lined up in the case.

It is a museum where you can get absorbed in the mystery novel mania police novel Freque.

 

Actually, the purpose I visited today was to follow the footprints of Kanbee Sagawa.

Born as late Tokugawa shogunate and Aizu clansman, a brave warrior who was declared "Kanbe of the Oni" in the Boshin War.

Shido Nakamura plays NHK Taiga's "Yae no Sakura".

After the war, the Aizu clan emigrated to the Shimokita Peninsula as the Tonan clan, but after the abolition of the clan, he served in the Metropolitan Police Department with 300 former clansman at the request of Toshiyoshi Kawaji, the first secretary of the Metropolitan Police Department.

In the role of southwestern part of Meiji 10 (1877), he will lead and set out a squad organized by police officers.

He was bulleted in an encounter with the Saigo army and ended his fierce life.

Is there any footsteps in the police museum?

I was able to find the name of "Kanbee Sagawa" in "Related Documents of the Southwest".

I couldn't move for a while because I was pushing my chest up.

 

At the time of the earthquake in 2011, I was in charge of hiring new graduates.

"I'm sorry. Let me decline the job offer.

 After the earthquake, I thought about what I should do.

 The activities of police officers and firefighters in the stricken area have made my heart hot.

 I also wanted to do that kind of work.

He is now working on the front line as a police officer.

It has a lively expression.

 

 

 
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