5 Things Japanese Police Say to Do Before Bed That Keep Burglars Away (Most Homeowners Don’t)

If nobody's sure who locked up last night: www.thesafehousebook.com The Safe House writes out my mother's evening round door by door, from one door two locks to seven evenings seven layers, with what each habit buys you in minutes and odds. 482 pages, 86 chapters, every claim in the source ledger. $47 early-bird, 30-day refund. I grew up in a Japanese house. I've now lived in America longer than I lived in Japan. People tell me Japan barely has burglary because people there are honest. Japan's own police figures say something more useful: the most common way into a Japanese house is a door or window somebody didn't lock. The difference was never character. It was a household where somebody walks the house at the same time every evening. This video walks through five things a Japanese house does between dusk and bed, from a lamp on its timer pins to the storm shutters every house on my mother's lane closes inside the same ten minutes. The last one is the reason the other four work, and it goes back to a job I was given when I was ten. And where America truly needs shutters, in hurricane country and behind every storm window, it built better than anything on my mother's lane. If you make it to the end, leave one word in the comments: done. And tell me how long your walk took, and who walks it in your house now. Chapters 0:00 Whatever the last one up checks 0:51 The lamp nobody is touching 1:30 My mother wouldn't let me do it later 2:34 Japan's biggest weak spot is yours too 3:40 The bell is always answered 5:23 The sound my mother's lane makes at dusk 8:17 Who locks your door tonight 9:52 The job I was given at ten 11:02 Your walk, timed Sources National Police Agency (Japan), residential intrusion-theft statistics, 2023–2024 National Police Agency, Police White Paper, 1977 Government of Japan Public Relations Office, home crime-prevention guidance (2023) Ibaraki and Chiba Prefectural Police, residential crime-prevention guidance Shōmei, builders' manual of the Heinouchi family, 1608 Nihon Daihyakka Zensho (Nipponica), entry on amado ALSOK and SECOM crime-prevention guidance U.S. Energy Information Administration, Residential Energy Consumption Survey 2020 Florida Building Code, wind-borne debris opening-protection requirements #HomeSecurity #BurglaryPrevention #JapanVsAmerica #JapaneseHome #CrimePrevention