Abstract
A considerable number of studies have been conductedon crime prevention in Japan over the past decade using theories developed in the US and the UK and pertaining mainly to environmentalcriminology. However, these theories that originated in other countries were foreign to the Japanese society whose culture and customs are different from those of the Western countries. In this paper, we would like to scrutinise the applicability of these foreign theories in Japan in the light of the fact that crimephenomenareflect the characteristicsof a local community.Recent years have seen Japan's local governmentsevincing growing interest in this field in concert with the increase in crime111. Locally based action plans directed at crime prevention and community safety have been developedand implementedsince 1994(2).
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