Drunk Driving Not A Social Norm

[Mulboyne]

[floatr][/floatr]Mainichi: Campaign calls for restaurants to withhold booze from drivers
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Metropolitan Police Department have launched an anti drink-driving campaign calling for restaurants and alcohol retailers to withhold alcohol from drivers and prevent people from driving under the influence. Under the "Tokyo campaign to prevent drink-driving" starting in October, about 54,000 stickers were delivered to establishments with calls for them to stop providing alcohol to drivers. "We also want providers of alcohol to have earnest respect for social norms," a Tokyo Metropolitan Government official said, commenting on the campaign. Restaurants and alcohol retailers will display stickers with various messages, such as "We will not provide alcohol to people who drive!" and "We will not allow people who drink to drive!"...more...

If you think you've seen those stickers before, you have. Perhaps they were inspired to use them for this campaign by kabuki star Shido Nakamura. See also this related FG thread

[IkemenTommy]

So they're saying that they won't validate parking tickets at the izakayas anymore?

[Big Booger]

Those eyes make me want to drink some more.

[Iraira]

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Police stop cars in Shimbashi on Tuesday night as part of DWI Crackdown Week, a campaign by the National Police Agency to get tough on drunk drivers. The campaign lasts until next Monday.

http://www.japantoday.com/jp/picture/2448

[Mulboyne]

Mainichi: Man who rode in car with drunk boss driving faces charges after fatal accident

A real estate company employee has been reported to prosecutors for aiding and abetting drink driving after he failed to stop his drunk boss from driving home, police said on Friday. "I was unable to prevent him from driving because he is my boss," police quoted the man as saying. The 42-year-old man from Tokyo's Suginami-ku and another colleague, 39, were in the car when their 30-year-old boss drove home from a party to welcome fresh employees on the night of Sept. 19. Their car veered into the opposite lane and hit the stairs of an apartment building in Nerima-ku. The 39-year-old colleague was fatally thrown out of the car, while the 42-year-old man escaped injury, police said. The 30-year-old driver was arrested on the spot for drink driving.

I know the law was changed so that passengers in a car driven by a drunk can also be fined. I don't know whether this "aiding and abetting" charge is the same thing or a new interpretation of existing laws.

[Big Booger]

Mainichi: Man who rode in car with drunk boss driving faces charges after fatal accident
I know the law was changed so that passengers in a car driven by a drunk can also be fined. I don't know whether this "aiding and abetting" charge is the same thing or a new interpretation of existing laws.

SO basically you risk losing your job or going to jail if you party with the boss now? Catch-22 if I ever saw one.

[American Oyaji]

Fucked if you do, damned if you don't

[Taro Toporific]

Mainichi: Man who rode in car with drunk boss driving faces charges after fatal accident
I know the law was changed so that passengers in a car driven by a drunk can also be fined.... "aiding and abetting" ....

Too many times, I've had to with a drunk after a "home party"---Damn hard to say "no." Once the drunk father of a girlfriend smashed THREE cars just trying to get out the parking lot of his condo/mansion--It was like the film Road Warrior. I hate to think what charges the cops would have cooked up for a gaijin "aiding and abetting."