Officers seen running after a police vehicle with a passenger waving from the front seat.
Like many holidays imported from overseas, Halloween looks a little different here in Japan. Door-to-door trick-or-treating, for example, is yet to catch on, although treats do appear — in the form of Ghost Whoppers, zombie pizzas and candies given out to children by yakuza gang members — and tricks have been largely limited to tricked-out cars and taxis appearing on the roads during Halloween.
Recently, however, there’s been a marked shift towards Halloween becoming a night to get drunk, run riot, and do all the things you’d never dream of doing on any other night of the year.
So when people in Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost prefecture, saw a police car drive by on the night of Halloween with a civilian waving at everyone from the open front passenger window, they immediately feared someone had just run off with a police officer’s vehicle.
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