Japanese FBI or alike.

[migele]

I want to start a new Project but I need something like the FBI or like that in Japan.
I'm trying to emulate the X-Files only weirder and funnier using Ranma and Sakaki (Azumanga).
For that I need all of the law structure for Japan, what weapons they use. Any rules of conduct and such.
If you could link me to the weapons so I can see how they look it would be perfect.
I plan on using several surprise guests and some familiar ones.

[antimatterenergy]

wikipedia police system of japan : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_system_of_Japan
wikipedia: criminal justice system of japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_j ... m_of_Japan
wikipedia: japanese law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_law
Your under arrest fansite has some info:
http://www.princeton.edu/~tpeng/
As for women in the japanese police force (if you wanted to make Sakaki a police officer of some type.) it's very sexist. Women are not allowed to carry weapons. Jobs assigned to women fall into the categories of traffic, social work, and undercover work. Women in the traffic division typically spend their time directing traffic, writing tickets, and impounding illegally parked vehicles. Women assigned to social work usually spend their time giving directions, counseling juveniles, or making presentations on traffic safety and crime prevention. Undercover female officers are usually assigned to combat shoplifting or pick pocketing. While working at the station, female officers usually serve tea to visitors and male officers.
As for weapons used by the Japanese police typically they are only armed with a club/night stick. Some police use the jo which is a four foot wooden staff. Only special units carry firearms.
The agency most euivelent to the FBI would be the National Police Agency.
From wikipedia:
The National Police Agency (警察庁; Keisatsu-Chou) is an agency administered by the National Public Safety Commission of the Cabinet Office in the cabinet of Japan, and is the central coordinating agency of the Japanese police system.
Unlike comparative bodies like the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, the NPA does not have any police officers of its own. Instead, its role is to determine general standards and policies, although in national emergencies or large-scale disasters the agency is authorized to take command of prefectural police forces. Policy for the NPA in turn is set by the National Public Safety Commission.

[Pale Wolf]

As for women in the japanese police force (if you wanted to make Sakaki a police officer of some type.) it's very sexist. Women are not allowed to carry weapons. Jobs assigned to women fall into the categories of traffic, social work, and undercover work.

Generally - you can figure out ways to make exceptions, though. For instance, a manga called Remote had a meter-maid transferred to carry a firearm and work as the body in the real world for a recluse. Just have to make sure you remember the sexism, and come up with an excuse to get around it.
(By the way, if you wanted to go with normal cops, neither NPA or SAT, they'd be in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department)
Another option would be to put them as a special cell within the SAT ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Assault_Team ), Japan's official counterterrorism unit. Say, a unit used to the strange and able to handle it without panicking or disbelieving, and able to terminate with extreme prejudice if necessary?

[migele]

The main thing is that I want Ranma working there for a few years. since he is used to weird shit happening he isn't shooting first and asking later but talking to the various demons and such.
he helps hem and they at times help him so he has a rather good spy network working when others need help in their troubles.
The way I wanted it Sakaki would be planned to be used as a leash for hi since some superior find out that there is someone said to do weird stuff, ignore many regultions, turning into a girl at times.
So they want to find out what's going on there and insert a skeptic as some kind of sky.
only Sakaki is going to see a world beyond her imagination.

[Togashi Gaijin]

As for weapons used by the Japanese police typically they are only armed with a club/night stick. Some police use the jo which is a four foot wooden staff. Only special units carry firearms.

Umm, no. A 0.38-caliber revolver is standard issue for all male Japanese police officers. Here's a quote from the US Dept of Justice:

*Weapons. After World War II, the United States advised Japanese police to require individual police officers to carry guns, whereas they used to carry only sabers. However, few guns are actually used. One problem is that offenders may initially attack police in order to obtain guns.

From the YUA website:

Standard equipment for all officers are handcuffs, a nightstick, and a fifteen foot piece of light rope. Male officers receive an additional 0.38-caliber revolver. Women are not issued firearms. Officers keep their handcuffs in a small pouch on the left-rear of their belt. The nightstick hangs alongside their left leg from a metal loop attached to their belt. This nightstick is exactly 60cm long and made of turned wood. The light rope is stored in a trouser pocket. Officers are trained to utilize this rope for a variety of tasks such as fashioning rescue hoists or tying tourniquets. The handgun rests in a holster and is further attached to a male officer by a braided rope around his right shoulder. Though female officers also wear a braided rope around their right shoulder, this rope has a whistle attached to it instead of a handgun.

The NPA has an English version of their website available at National Police Agency (English)
-Togashi Gaijin-

[Winchester]

If you want a setting with a little more freedom than the real world, try GITS: SAC. As it is, we only know that the department of Public Security has at least nine sections, but only two or three are ever mentioned IIRC.
I actually didn't know the Japanese police forces were that sexist, it makes me apprecieate the rebellion in nearly all of Shirow's work a bit more...
SP