When the author had just started using the internet, he seems to remember coming across a homepage like “Career-track recruitment at the Metropolitan Police Department.”
The author has a hazy memory that when he had just started using the internet, he came across a website titled something like “Metropolitan Police Department Career Recruitment.” In reality, the Japanese police are bifurcated into two: career police bureaucrats who are national public servants—people who, primarily after graduating from the University of Tokyo, passed the National Public Service General Position Examination with top results and entered the National Police Agency—and non-career ordinary police officers who are local public servants, having passed the police officer recruitment examination (there are university-graduate-level and high-school-graduate-level tracks). From 1954, when the Police Act was revised and the National Police Agency (corresponding to the prewar Home Ministry’s Police Affairs Bureau) as a national police body was restored, back to the period before that, under the guidance of GHQ, municipal police existed, and during that period it is possible that there was career recruitment by prefectural police (municipal police), but today that would be impossible. (In 1954 the Self-Defense Forces were also inaugurated. You might say it was a milestone year for Japan’s postwar settlement and recovery of sovereignty from GHQ’s occupation governance.)
This case is part of the Mandela Effect case database based on "The Window of Opportunity: A Guidepost to the Mandela Effect — The Ultra-Secret X-Files" by Aoyama Takuto.