JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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Rudd
Use of bilingual signs with correct grammar is on the increase. Can't see that being a bad thing.
Posted in: Manner poster
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Rudd
That he doesn't make movies about "good vs evil" is something that always attracted me to his stories. Mononoke is a shining example of this, that each of the many parties involved could at any point be seen as good OR evil, depending on your point of view, and the film made this very clear.
Posted in: Animator Hayao Miyazaki worries about children's future
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Rudd
Definite qualified no to the first one. The comparison to a doctor giving out medicine they know will be harmful is bogus, because all medicine and alcohol can be both harmful or beneficial depending on the way the patient/customer ends up using it. If a doctor prescribes a month's worth of medicine to a patient with strict instructions to take 1 after a meal three times a day, but the patient decides to take the entire month's dose in one go, and subsequently dies in a pool of their own bile and vomit, the doctor cannot reasonably be held responsible. Likewise if a customer abuses their responsibilities by driving after consuming a certain amount of booze at a licensed establishment, then providing the bar owner was not breaking any laws or procedures (or "common sense" in the case of paralytic patrons) then it's unreasonable to hold them responsible for the customer's actions after they leave. The only fair way to implement some sort of responsibility is to instigate a procedure nationwide that if followed indemnifies the owner - for example whenever a customer or group of customers arrives, have them formally asked if any of them will be driving. Anybody that says they are will not be served anything with alcohol, and if they're seen drinking somebody else's alcohol they will be kicked out and their license plate will be reported to the police. And I can't see anything like that happening.
Second one, would have to depend on the circumstances. Knowing about something but doing nothing generally isn't a crime for a good reason, but if it can be demonstrated that the passenger in the car or anybody else for that matter (including the bar owner) had been overly persuasive in encouraging the driver to drink while fully aware he would be driving should certainly be prosecuted for incitement.
Posted in: Should bar owners who serve alcohol to customers knowing they are driving be liable for prosecution if the customer is involved in a traffic accident? Should passengers in cars driven by drunk drivers be also liable for prosecution?