Japan lifts No Dancing ban we didn’t know existed

Japan lifts No Dancing ban we didn’t know existed
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For the past four years, dancing in clubs or bars in Japan has been strictly prohibited by laws, but authorities are set to change their tune following Tokyo’s win to host the 2020’s Olympic Games and the expected tourism boost that’s likely to follow.

The no-dancing law, called fueiho in Japanese, as reported by vice, said the Japanese government gave its final stamp of approval to lift the ban yesterday in light of tourists expecting to fill Tokyo’s nightlife districts during the Games.

The changes, as highlighted by vice, will now allow for a new category of clubs allowing visitors to ‘dance all night’, but must have better lighting to curb unwanted behaviour, which is why the ban was enforced in the first place following the death of a student outside an Osaka nightclub in 2010.

"Visitors from overseas would come here to Japan and they'd wonder why they can't dance, even though you can dance at night anywhere overseas," Kenji Kosaka, a member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party told Reuters, as reported by vice.

"The biggest thing that will change in this law is that you can now dance at night."

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