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Illegally parked - statistics on towed cars in Tokyo - Brief Article

Japan, Inc., Dec, 2002

According to Weekly Playboy magazine, over the 10-year period from 1992 to the end of 2001, 2,065,600 cars were ordered towed off the streets of Tokyo by cops from the city's 96 police precincts. The magazine estimates that 12 truck companies in this business rake in [yen] 653 million a year in fines and towing costs.

In which parts of the Big Mikan are illegally parked cars most likely to be towed away by a wrecker? First is Shinjuku, where 77,800 got impounded. The remaining top 10, in descending order, are Shibuya (74,913), Azabu (69,905), Akasaka (61,127), Ueno (57,258), Ikebukuro (53,221), Tsukiji (48,795), Honjo in Sumida ward (47,691), Manseibashi in Akihabara (42,178) and Fukagawa in Koto ward (40,654).

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