clickonthewhatnow comments

@Wakarimasen - It's NOT his right to smoke on a non-smoking train.

@Tokyoclambake - new to Japan? Each passenger must be questioned three times, to make sure their stories don't change. Triplicate, I say, triplicate!

@Julius - Obviously you've studied up on the Japanese society if you think being at home at 22 is cause for concern. That fits quite well within the societal norms here. And 25 years in prison for something you don't have all the information on? Good going, Sherlock!

@Stewart - "discouraging car use" with dangerous roads only works in parts of the country where car use is optional. Outside of Tokyo, where public transit rapidly deteriorates, it quickly becomes necessary to drive a car.

@Bura - installing red-light cameras would be helpful, yes, but... every intersection? Only if it's coupled with a plan to reduce the sales tax with the money the government sees coming in. Of course, the tax would have to go up to put that amount of cameras out there...

Pumpkin, that's easy enough to say. The same thing happened in Canada until they decided to have the police actually crack down on that, and it'll continue to happen here until the police do something about it. All the commercials about how wearing a seatbelt can save your life did very little. It was the fine that got people buckling up all the time.