Japanese Solution to Crime: Hide in Plain Sight

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	Japanese Solution to Crime: Hide in Plain Sight

fauxpress

10-21-2007 5:57 AM

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These portable anti-crime vending machine hiding places are only $800. Gotta love the Japanese.

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Though street crime is relatively low in Japan, quirky camouflage designs like this vending-machine dress are being offered to an increasingly anxious public to hide from would-be assailants.
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</NYT_TEXT><P>TOKYO, Oct. 19   — On a narrow Tokyo street, near a beef bowl restaurant and a pachinko parlor, Aya Tsukioka demonstrated new clothing designs that she hopes will ease <A title="More news and information about Japan." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/japan/index.html?inline=nyt-geo">Japan</A>’s growing fears of crime.</p> <DIV id="articleInline">
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 <P>Deftly, Ms. Tsukioka, a 29-year-old experimental fashion designer, lifted a flap on  her skirt to reveal a large sheet of cloth printed in bright red with a soft drink logo partly visible. By holding the sheet  open and stepping to the side of the road, she showed how a woman walking alone could elude pursuers — by disguising herself as a vending machine.</P></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F96040B5-A02E-4D0D-87C0-E4D20127065F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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