Japanese MPs vote unanimously to outlaw ticket touting
Unauthorised ticket touting will be punishable by a million-yen fine, or a prison sentence, as a result of Japan's new anti-secondary law
News By | 10 December 2018
Japan’s House of Councillors has voted 237–0 to approve a law criminalising nearly all ticket touting, just over two years after the #ResaleNO campaign first brought the issue to public prominence.
The legislation – approved by Japan’s lower house, the House of Representatives, on 4 December, and the upper house, the House of Councillors, on Saturday 8 December – proscribes ticket touting, both online and outside venues, for all shows where the organiser has prohibited resale – in practice, the majority of promoters.
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