Locks in Japan, and Taiwan.

[gostone]

Hey guy's

Actually a lot of the japanese locks are standard 5 pin tumbler, and yes Raimundo Japan is still very much on the honour system. Some people have these little built in locks on their back brake calipers, but on the whole, they don't seem to be as security conscious as we in North America. Really wonderful and honest people, very little theft. Most of the neat locks I have seen are like abloy knock offs, and simple locks, these are primarily padlocks in Taiwan.

Shane

[mh]

Ok look at the time this was posted and the time the last message was posted and see how long it took to find it

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Thanks, but I was thinking of this one:
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I also have one of these, but I don't like it very much...

Cheers,
mh

[greyman]

Miwa wafer locks are hardly used at all in the big cities now. I'm not sure if there were ever lots of standard 5 pin tumbler locks, since Miwa was by far the biggest lock supplier in Japan since 1950s and their main product was wafer. I tried to get an old Miwa wafer lock from a Japanese locksmith last year and it is not that easy anymore. Many people have replaced entrance locks with high security (dimple, sidebar) locks. Crime-free Japan is a thing of the past, although maybe in some remote villages this is still true.