[Michael_Voyageur]

Les mineurs interdits de karaoke et manga-kissa apres 11 heure du soir ? Projet de loi présenté par le gouverneur de Tokyo

Le projet risque d'etre tres impopulaire parmi les jeunes, mais aussi aupres des etablissements concernés , en effet les karaoke et manga-kissa (café à manga et internet) sont majoritairement peuplé de jeunes et notamment de mineurs, meme aux heures tardives.

Source : Yomiuri Shimbun

Minors may be barred from karaoke joints after 11 p.m.


The Tokyo governor's advisory panel on juvenile problems Friday completed a draft proposal to add karaoke joints, coffee shops with manga libraries and Internet cafes to facilities listed in metropolitan ordinances as places where people under the age of 18 are barred after 11 p.m.

The metropolitan government will on Jan. 19 receive the proposal to revise the ordinances on healthy development of juveniles, and plans to submit it to a Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly session to be convened in February.

Under current ordinances, minors are barred from entertainment amenities, such as baseball parks, cinemas, bowling alleys, skating rinks, and swimming pools, between 11 p.m. and 4 a.m. The ordinance imposes fines of up to 300,000 yen on operators of facilities that violate the regulations.

No change has been made to the list of facilities subject to the controls since the ordinance was issued in 1964. However, only a few cinemas and bowling alleys open after 11 p.m.

According to the metropolitan government, as of September 2003 there were only 95 facilities subject to the regulation. Tokyo's 1,109 karaoke joints and 370 coffee shops with manga libraries and Internet cafes are not covered by the rules.

Most of these places are open overnight and are used by minors who have run away from home, or who want to stay out without their parents' permission. Such establishments are criticized by some for being hotbeds of delinquency.

Relevant business associations apply self-restraint on the entry of minors to these facilities after 11 p.m. However, because the number of facilities that have joined the associations is still small, the self-imposed controls are only partially effective. In light of this, the metropolitan government saw a need for a more practical set of regulations.
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[Iwa]

Ca risque de considerablement baisser le chiffre d'affaire de ces boites.
A mon avis cette lois ne passera pas....

Une telle lois n'est pas une bonne idee: les jeunes quand ils sont en train de chanter dans un karaoke, ne trainent pas dehors a rien faire. Et meme si le taux de criminalite reste encore relativement faible, s'ils ne peuvent pas se divertir, ils risquent d'aller faire des betises comme tagger ou casser....

Le manque d'infrastructures (comme les stades, karaoke, ....) est une des causes de la criminalité

[blablatus]

Exactement! Ca ne m'etonne pas de la part d'Ishihara. C'est vraiment une mesure de conservateur. Deja que la police essaie de limiter les groupes qui jouent dans la rue parce qu'ils font trop de bruit... A mon avis, avec ce genre de mesures, Ishihara tente de menager son electorat de vieux...

[Sir.Gauvain]

Surtout que la majorité est à 20 ans... Ca fait plaisir....