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The Businesses Affecting Public Morals Regulation Law (風俗営業等の規制及び業務の適正化等に関する法律, Fūzoku eigyō tō no kisei oyobi gyōmu no tekiseika tō ni kansuru hōritsu), also known as 風俗営業取締法 (Fūzoku eigyō torishimari hō) or 風営法 (Fūeihō),[1] is a law that regulates entertainment places in Japan.
August 14, 1984: Extension to some businesses before midnight.
April 1998: Extension to some massage businesses and adult videos transmission by Internet.
November 2005: Penal regulation enforcement, various new rules.[2]
January 2015: Proposition to relax the law is rejected.[3]
Effective 2016 the law will be relaxed, allowing permits for exceptions as long as certain conditions are met including lighting and not operating near residential areas.[4]
Category 3: Business where customers can eat and dance.
Category 4: Dance hall.
At first this covered dance schools too. Dance schools were removed from this category in 1998 after the movie Shall We Dance? made ballroom dance popular.
Telekura operated from home, for instance using a cellular telephone.
Businesses selling alcohol after midnightedit
Selling alcohol after midnight requires a permission. Also, after 10pm family restaurants must refuse non-accompanied people under 18 years old.
Authorizationedit
Business in the "Businesses offering food and entertainment" class require an authorization from the prefecture's public safety commission.
Business in the "Sex industry" and "Businesses selling alcohol after midnight" classes do not require an authorization, but require a notification.
Consequence on nightclubsedit
Dance is forbidden in nightclubs with dancefloors smaller than 66 square meters,[5] or nightclubs that operate after 1am (midnight in some areas).[1] While this rule has been mostly ignored for 50 years, around 2011 it started to be enforced by the police in Osaka, Fukuoka and Tokyo.[5] This led most nightclubs to display "No Dancing" signs, and some employed security personnel to actually prevent customers from dancing.[6]
In 2013, organization Let's Dance submitted a petition signed by 155,879 people to the National Diet, demanding that the part of the law regulating dancing be updated.[6] Let's Dance has a sub-group called Dance Lawyers.[6]
The cabinet agreed to lift the ban on dancing in October 2014. Some have speculated this was in view of the 2020 Summer Olympics.[7]
^ abHadfield, James (12 October 2012). . Time Out Tokyo. Archived from the original on 27 January 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
^Hartley, Ryan (Spring 2005). "The politics of dancing in Japan" (PDF). The Newsletter (70).
^"「クラブ」の営業規制を緩和する風俗営業法改正案が廃案に - ライブドアニュース" [Amendment to the customs law to relax sales regulations of "clubs" is out of date] (in Japanese). news.livedoor.com. 9 January 2015.
^ abHashi. . Tofugu. Archived from the original on 20 March 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
^ abcLhooq, Michelle (27 December 2013). . THUMP. Archived from the original on 12 February 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
^"After a Long Legal Battle, Japan Finally Lifts Its Notorious "No Dancing" Law". Thump. Retrieved 2015-05-01.
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