Topic: BOARD NEWS - on January 18, 2004 at 11:57:00 PM CET
Tokyo gov't to consider ban on panty trade
The Tokyo metropolitan assembly will deliberate a ban on trade in girls' underwear by sex shops as well as other proposals on juvenile issues drafted by a government advisory panel, officials said Sunday.
The panel will present the proposals on Monday, and legislators are expected to deliberate major revisions to a Tokyo law on the upbringing of youth in a legislative session to convene in February.
Some of the proposals could be the first of their kind to be included in an ordinance by a local government in Japan.
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