Saturday, June 04, 2005

Anti-Social

Tokyo already has to be one of the safest big cities anywhere, but now I can feel even safer in my hotel. I was browsing the standard guest services information last night (where I learned that it was a good thing I actually brought workout gear, since you have to pay $50/day to use the gym!), and came across the hotel's Rules of Conduct, which includes a section on Criminal Organizations and Threats to Public Safety:
(1) Criminal organizations and their members as specified in the Restrictions on Prevention of Unreasonable Behavior by Gangsters (enforced on March 1, 1992) will not be accepted as guests by the Hotel. (Guests who are discovered after having made a reservation to belong to a criminal organization shall be refused the services of the Hotel as of the time of such discovery.)
(2) Anti-Social organizations and their members (i.e., gangs, radical groups and their members) will not be accepted as guests by the Hotel. Guests who are discovered after having made a reservation to belong to a criminal organization shall be refused the services of the Hotel as of the time of such discovery.
(3) If violence, threats, blackmail, coercion or similar behavior is reported, we will immediately request any person exhibiting or responsible for such behavior to leave the Hotel. Also, any person who exhibited or was responsible for such behavior in the past will not be accepted as a guest of the Hotel.
(4) We ask anyone who is behaving in an extremely irresponsible manner (e.g., a mentally incompetent person who is not in control of his/her actions or a person with diminished capacity caused by drugs) to leave the Hotel at once, if we believe that person may endanger, annoy or disturb guests and visitors.
(5) Do not annoy other guests by making loud noises (including speeches and public address) in your room. Do not gamble and do not commit any offense against public decency or public order.

I don't seem to remember reading anything like this when I've stayed at a run-of-the-mill Holiday Inn back home. Come to think of it, I haven't seen anything like this in Switzerland either, but that's probably because you could substitute "Country" for "Hotel" and it would pretty much describe the conditions for living there...