More on the Kabukicho Clean-Up

[Captain Japan]

This might not have been Kabukicho but the message will certainly be felt there...
Cabaret club worker arrested for soliciting under revised ordinance
Mainichi

A university student who tried to get a woman to become a cabaret club worker has been arrested, Metropolitan Police Department officials said.

Takeshi Sato, 22, was arrested for violating a Tokyo metropolitan ordinance banning people from creating a public nuisance. A revision to the metropolitan ordinance that established penalties for soliciting by cabaret clubs came into effect on Tuesday. It was the first time that police applied the revision to make an arrest.

Trouble over soliciting by cabaret clubs had repeatedly arisen in entertainment districts in Tokyo and drawn complaints, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly revised its ordinance last year.

This must have happened after midnight last night.

[Iraira]

This might not have been Kabukicho but the message will certainly be felt there...
Cabaret club worker arrested for soliciting under revised ordinance
Mainichi

This must have happened after midnight last night.

Ok, amateur lawyers, could this law be used in an ordinary nanpa situation? Technically, I am soliciting the female, under the guise of a nice safe cup of coffee. But, we all know what's lurking in both my heads.

[Visitor K]

But, we all know what's lurking in both my heads.

syphilis?
sorry, couldnt resist!

it sure would suck getting nabbed by the cops trying to pick up a girl in kabukicho. i remember one night after a few rounds i helped one of the karaoke box dudes pass out fliers on the street.. it only took a few minutes of walking up to girls and passing them a flier and asking if they wanted to go to karaoke before getting invited out for a drink.

[Iraira]

syphilis?
sorry, couldnt resist!

How am I gonna contract syphilis on both heads? That'd have to be one lossey-goosey chick for me to stuff my noggin' up there...however, it could be like a cosmic trip back home, "Man, I grew up in a place just like this."

[Adhesive]

syphilis?

[Visitor K]

How am I gonna contract syphilis on both heads?

if you are gonna be running around the streets of kabukicho, you need to do you STD homework.. the late stages of syphilis actually effect your central nervous system, and can even progress into neurosyphilis and cause dementia as well as other CNS problems.. keep it covered!

[Greji]

if you are gonna be running around the streets of kabukicho, you need to do you STD homework.. the late stages of syphilis actually effect your central nervous system, and can even progress into neurosyphilis and cause dementia as well as other CNS problems.. keep it covered!

Don't worry K, Ira et al has got some bugs that would eat the syphillis infection for lunch....He used to go with Noriko....

[Visitor K]

He used to go with Noriko....

i used to run around with her too, how do you think i know so much about syphilis, FUCKING WHORE!!

[Mulboyne]

...And speaking of cleaning up Shinjuku, what's the status of the investigation of that fire that happened there...?

Asahi: Five found guilty of negligence for Kabukicho fire that killed 44

Operators of a multi-tenant building in Tokyo's Kabukicho nightlife district were convicted Wednesday of professional negligence resulting in death and bodily injury over a deliberately set fire that killed 44 people in September 2001. But the Tokyo District Court handed down suspended sentences, saying the defendants could not have anticipated such a large blaze. The building's de facto owner, Shigeo Segawa, 66, and four others, including tenants, received two- to three-year prison terms, suspended for four to five years, for failing to take proper fire-prevention measures. Another defendant, a 44-year-old man, was acquitted because he was only in an advisory position to one of the tenants, the court ruled. The fire, believed to have been set near an elevator on the third floor, killed 44 customers and workers of establishments in the building, including a hostess bar and a mah-jongg parlor. They were trapped in the building during the blaze, and most of them died of carbon monoxide poisoning. The suspected arsonist, responsible for Japan's fifth deadliest blaze since World War II, has not been caught.

During the trial, the six defendants pleaded innocent, saying they were not in a position to give instructions on fire-prevention management. However, Presiding Judge Masanori Hatoko ruled that the five shouldered grave responsibility for "one of the worst fire cases in history" by "placing the sole priority on the pursuit of profits while neglecting fire-prevention efforts." Segawa and the four others were responsible for keeping stairways and entrances unobstructed while ensuring that fire doors and other equipment were in working condition, the judge said. "But the fire alarms and fire-prevention equipment contained various defects, leaving the building in a dangerous condition," the judge ruled. For example, a fire door could not be closed because it was blocked by an object, Hatoko said. If the defendants had fulfilled their responsibilities, no one would have died, the judge said.

In addition, the court said the defendants should have known about the risks of an arson attack because a suspicious fire had been reported near the same elevator entrance before the September 2001 disaster. But the judge did not send the defendants to prison, saying it was difficult for them to have anticipated the large scale of the fire. He also said the court took into account that the company that owns the building has paid a total of 1.01 billion yen ($9.5 million) in consolation money to victims and bereaved families.

[Mulboyne]

Yomiuri: Kabukicho fire safety still poor, inspectors say

Despite a 2001 fire in Tokyo's Kabukicho nightlife district that killed 44 people, tenant managers in the area are in many cases still ignorant of proper fire safety measures, a fire service survey shows. A focus of the trial at the Tokyo District Court, which followed the fire at the Myojo 56 Building, was whether a local fire station's instructions to remove items impeding access in stairways and other places--issued two years before the fire, but ignored--should be considered adequate. Following the fire, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency revised the fire protection law in 2002, strengthening its oversight of tenant managers by allowing fire stations to issue an order to remove goods during their inspections. As a result, noncompliance at multi-tenant small buildings with only one stairway dropped, with the rate in Kabukicho falling to 10 percent in November 2007 from 31 percent in February 2004. However, when the local Shinjuku Fire Station conducted a no-notice inspection in the district Tuesday, they found a large number of flammable items had been left in stairways and that firedoors could not be closed--a similar situation to the Myojo 56 Building. The managers of the inspected buildings removed the goods when told to do so by inspectors, but some reportedly had put the goods back within an hour. One fire station official told The Yomiuri Shimbun there were many tenants whose fire-prevention awareness remained insufficient. "We should persevere in giving them instructions," the official said.

[Mulboyne]

Another tourist/business hotel has opened in Kabukicho. The E-Hotel is located above the newly opened Higashi Shinjuku station on the Fukutoshin line. Single rooms are pitched at 10,000 yen while a twin is 16,000 but they are on offer at 7,500 and 10,000 yen respectively for the rest of August.

[Mulboyne]

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

In English, it says "I want you to know about me. I want to know more about you. Whether it's the TV, newspapers or the internet, I can't get enough of you. That's why it would be great if I could meet you HERE".

Ah, for beautiful human life...

[Mulboyne]

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The police went on a major patrol around the Okubo and Kabukicho, to close down unlicensed bars, clear off touts and get establishments to remove illegally-placed signboards.

[IparryU]

wow not roppongi? finally crackin down on the yaks or just the korean and chinese joints?

[matsuki]

wow not roppongi? finally crackin down on the yaks or just the korean and chinese joints?

I'm starting to think this is their strategy to take away some attention from all the incompetency that's been exposed...

[Mulboyne]

wow not roppongi? finally crackin down on the yaks or just the korean and chinese joints?

Police have been moving on Kabukicho for longer than the same efforts in Roppongi.