There’s a law against it
No one can accuse Ibaraki prefectural government of being behind the times. With their feet planted firmly in the present, and their gaze set resolutely forwards, they’re tackling the problems of the modern world with appropriately modern laws and ordinances.
That’s why they recently enacted an “ordinance outlawing minors from selling their underpants”. And a certain Kenji Tomita, “46, a part-time worker from Ishioka”, is aware of this as he was the first lucky punter to be arrested under the new law.
According to a Mainichi report,
Tomita was the first person to be arrested under a clause of the ordinance that outlaws the practice of minors under 18 from removing their underwear and selling it.
Presumably, then, the law doesn’t cover selling freshly laundered panties. Perhaps the lawmakers, who know more about these things (the law, I mean), deemed there was no market, and no legislation was required.
(I’ll be Brief) “Crime-is-against-the-Law-in-Japan”.
and Tomita-San!should have known that.
*Unless he was un-deware of this new ordinance*
Maybe he’ll get off on appeal.
October 11th, 2007 at 8:58 amDamned! He’s a ‘part-time worker’. There goes the air-tight plea of ‘I was stressed from work.’
October 11th, 2007 at 9:02 amalso, why was he arrested? after all the law states that it is illegal for minors to sell their scanties.
Where does he come into the picture? - what happened to her?.
It all seems fairly unjust to me.
remora
October 11th, 2007 at 9:09 amIt’s a dirty business.
October 11th, 2007 at 11:36 amlook i’m no PhillyLawyer, but the ordinance as i read it, prohibits the Selling not Buying - now was he purchasing for his own personal fetishistic use? or was he an on-seller for the stocking of …
http://www.eigoninja.com/secretjapan/2007/09/21/schoolgirl-panties/
are these machines banned in Ibaraki Pref.?..Gosh! I could write a local ordinance better than that.
Maybe it was a setup?..possibly he was framed?..(like George Michael in a Beverly Hills toilet)..
I-say-its-Clear-Entrapment…your honor!
(*_*)
rem.
October 11th, 2007 at 2:00 pm“There’s a law against it”
October 11th, 2007 at 7:14 pmThe true Japan is disapearing little by little …
aaah dang, I have to stop selling my undies now :p
October 11th, 2007 at 9:47 pmSounds like a dirty business on the low-down.
October 11th, 2007 at 10:08 pmriki, I’m assuming you’re above the age of majority. This law only appears to apply to minors, so you can keep selling your undies if you so desire.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:17 amagain may i say - Kenji Tomita got busted for Buying not Selling.
1) He was 46 not 17
2) It wasn’t His Panty’s
3) vittel - (please define) “the true Japan”
*robben please take over*
and Rumpole-oftenover (me-old-darlin’) I really thought you would step in on this.
remora.
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October 12th, 2007 at 8:43 am..oh dear! what a Panty-Mine thread you’ve started double-O.
rem
October 12th, 2007 at 8:51 amIt’s an interesting point you make remora.
The relevant portion of the Japanese-language version of the linked article states: 同条例は１８歳未満の青少年に下着を脱がせ、その場で買い取る行為を禁じており、県内では初適用という。
If you go strictly by this sentence, the offense is committed by the act of purchasing undies after the perpetrator has the minor in question remove said undies. In other words, the English version of the article looks like a bit of a mistranslation.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:28 amexactly! it not about undies is it?..its about any article of used/soiled/damp clothing ..like, lets say a sweaty gym sock.
October 12th, 2007 at 10:03 amIf it’s not about undies, it must be about what undies support… therefore, is that a sock in your pocket or your just happy to see me…
October 12th, 2007 at 11:34 amI remember reading somewhere, that one vendor was busted for not selling the genuine article. In which case they breeched the antiquities law. So busted either way I guess
October 12th, 2007 at 11:47 amriki: would you mind explaining what “breeching the antiquities law” is? - I thought this subject was about young-female-damp-fetid-undergarments….
rem.
October 12th, 2007 at 1:17 pmnow JP, please don’t chastise me, but whilst thinking about unclean panties, my mind wandered off into a political stream of thought…that is, ex-PM Abe and wife..
http://www.newsgroper.com/shinzo-abe/2007/08/23/honey-sexathon-charity/
that stuff is hellishly funny..
October 12th, 2007 at 1:43 pmhey rem, actually it was something I saw in a documentary on the subject, ages ago. Some lobby group in japan was trying to shut down the panty vending machines in their area. I don’t remember it clearly but I’m guessing the vendor must’ve used an obvious defense (whether true or not), that the dirty school girl panties we’re legit. In which case they got them on a technicality for selling collectors items that we’re basically forgeries. Something like that. Sorry my memory is crap
October 12th, 2007 at 2:00 pmDuh! that should read “weren’t legit”
October 12th, 2007 at 2:02 pmMaybe this was it
“They were banninated (as far as I know) under some kind of antiquities restriction…you had to get permission from the local law enforcement or something like that to sell antiquities (in this case used panties) and the government dudes said “no way man!”. That was in the early nienties so I’m not sure if some other places have gotten around that one or have been allowed to sell antiquities of such caliber but I’d hope the bannination was still in place. Panties in a vending machine is just…too odd.”
http://halloweentown.org/forum/lofiversion/index.php?t330-1800.html
October 12th, 2007 at 2:08 pmlucky that you clarified that riki, because “breeching the antiquity” suggested something like bonking my mother-in-law…(oh the pain!..oh the pain!)
*gotta go to darts nite now - see ya!!*
rem.
October 12th, 2007 at 2:11 pm