Japan's Safety Guide for Distracted, Wandering Pokemon Go Players

Pokemon Go has swiftly taken over the U.S. and Europe, prompting tenacious trainers everywhere to wander into the farthest corners of their cities to (virtually) catch them all. Now, after weeks of anticipation, the mobile game has finally arrived in Japan—the very country that gave us these irresistibly kawaii monsters—and the Pokemon craze is expected to be even bigger.

By now, news of Pokemon Go players falling off cliffs, getting robbed, and crashing into police cars has reached the other side of the world, and Japan knows its own citizens are not immune to these kinds of mishaps. In fact, the BBC writes that just hours after the game launched, a student at Osaka's Kindai University reportedly fell down the stairs while playing and had to be taken to the hospital.