'Operation Flower' began about three years ago. By planting flowers facing the street, more people will be keeping an eye out while taking care of the flowers or watering them.
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Kiyotaka Ohyagi, a Suginami City official, talking about the Tokyo area’s neighborhood watch group formed to help stamp out burglaries. (Reuters)
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ben4short
Poor foolish bureaucrat Ohyagi still hasn't figured out that the inability of the Japanese to multi-task is hardwired into their DNA. Ya wanna stop crime, go ahead and form a citizen's watch group (though don't expect much); ya wanna look at pretty flowers, go ahead and plant them. But putting the two together with this cute Operation Flower idea is a typically silly, misguided Japanese approach to a serious problem that is going to produce pretty flowers and MORE burglaries.
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Triple888
I believe it works. Just like goodies being repelled away from symbols of evil.
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medievaltimes
This obviously isn't going to work. They need an animation mascot.
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