Tokyo Neighborhoods Take Measure to Prevent Halloween Crowds
It looks like the mayors of the major Tokyo neighborhoods of Shinjuku and Shibuya are trying to prevent crowd crush like incidents from happening like what happened in Seoul’s Itaewon neighborhood:
Leaders of this city’s most popular nightlife districts held a news conference Monday and called on revelers to stay away during Halloween. Shinjuku Mayor Kenichi Yoshizumi said his ward saw an increase of about 3,000 visitors during Halloween last year after Shibuya strongly discouraged street parties and banned public drinking.
Shibuya became a popular place to spend Halloween night in the early 2000s. In recent years, many costumed revelers and those who come to see them have crowded the iconic Shibuya Scramble intersection and narrow streets around Shibuya Station.
So many people were drinking and littering last year in Kabukicho, a popular redlight district in Shinjuku, that ward officials were collecting garbage strewn everywhere the next morning. “To leave garbage behind after drinking and eating is not what an educated and rational person would do,” Yoshizumi said during a joint news conference with Shibuya Mayor Ken Hasebe at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan.
You can read more at the link.
Will Itaewon and other entertainment venues also “take measures”?
Will Itaewon and other entertainment venues also “take measures”?
I believe @setnaffa now recognizes that his previous stance of ‘doing nothing’ regarding the Itaewon tragedy was mistaken.
Nonsense.
Adults in a free country are responsible for their own actions. And the consequences. Of course, people growing up in a totalitarian hellhole aren’t given that opportunity, so your response is understandable, expected, and appropriately dull.
I just wanted to know if South Korea was going to copy Japan again. Or if they were going to trust the harsh lessons given eatlier had been sufficiently learned.