In the neighborhood of Kawaguchiko Station in Yamanashi Prefecture, taxis participating in questionable practices corresponding to soliciting passengers and parking illegally have change into a rampant problem.

Kawaguchiko Station, a frequent vacation spot for quite a few worldwide vacationers, has a white taxi parked in a rotary, a spot designated primarily for pick-ups and drop-offs by native motels and personal automobiles, the place taxis are formally not allowed to park.

Moreover, a taxi was discovered parked in the course of a close-by coin-operated parking zone, positioned in a means that obstructs different automobiles from exiting.

From a distance on the taxi stand of Kawaguchiko Station, a person in a go well with watches the road of ready passengers. Approaching nearer, he was heard providing rides to overseas vacationers ready for taxis, an act that seems to be soliciting.

It appears that drivers from firms that can’t use the common stand are resorting to such practices.

Soliciting on this method might represent a violation of the Minor Offenses Act.

Yesterday, when a JNN reporter confronted a driver engaged in solicitation and nuisance parking…

Reporter: ‘Are you engaged in soliciting passengers?’

Driver: ‘No, I’m not soliciting.’

The driver denied the act of solicitation. Regarding the nuisance parking, the dialog continued:

Reporter: ‘Aren’t you parked in a no-parking space?’

Driver: ‘It’s effective.’

Reporter: ‘What about parking in the course of the parking zone?’

Driver: ‘I’ve parked in a means that others can cross. I’m not in the course of the parking zone.’

Reporter: ‘But you have been.’

Driver: ‘No, I wasn’t.’

Reporter: ‘Do you understand that you’re committing a violation?’

Driver: ‘No, I’m not.’

One of the businesses using the drivers in query, responding to the interview, acknowledged, ‘We have acquired complaints about nuisance parking and different points up to now and have warned our drivers. If these nuisances are true, we’ll guarantee thorough instruction is supplied.’

Source: TBS