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dagon
Receiving "social sanctions" for a legal violation. Maybe next time someone is prosecuted for growing an illegal botanical species this can be a sentencing option.
bokuda
clear VIP treatment to 1st class citizens.
borscht
I hope I can use 'social sanctions' when I'm arrested. Perhaps my sentence will be between four weeks or one month, my choice. (I'd choose February if the latter.)
englisc aspyrgend
If he broke the law he should be prosecuted, the more so because of his position. With greater power comes greater responsibility.
DNALeri
Isn't "one month" and "four weeks" more or less the same thing?
Goodlucktoyou
Japan has the highest gambling addiction in the world, so they might as well fine 50% of the population. This morning at the lotto shop, the elderly woman in front of me, her unroadworthy small car and second hands clothes, spent ¥30000 on tickets. Then I went to park in the pachinko free parking to go shopping, but no spaces.
he may be a prosecutor, but is also just a normal bloke.
Spitfire
'Suspended sentence' if even that.
bokuda
not only gambling, but doing so with main newspaper reporters, and received gifts from them over years time.
not to mention that the reporters were not prosecuted.
Sal Affist
Besides the upcoming fine, his career is over and he will be forced to retire. I noted that part - "his gambling with reporters when Japan was under a state of emergency due to the novel coronavirus pandemic" is yet another example of how leaders in Japan did not take seriously any of the restrictions they were imposing on the rest of us.