{"id":123,"date":"2008-06-06T19:14:05","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T10:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2009-02-24T19:15:02","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T10:15:02","slug":"backseat-buckle-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/backseat-buckle-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Backseat buckle up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Did you know that Shiga Prefecture has Japan&#8217;s lowest rate of people buckling up in the back seat? According to a nationwide survey conducted jointly by Japan&#8217;s prefectural police and the Japan Automobile Federation (JAF) in Oct. 2007, only 7 people out of 600 wore a seat belt while sitting in the back seat of a car in Shiga.\u00a0 That&#8217;s only 1.2%.<\/p>\n<p>This low figure shocked the Shiga Prefectural Police Department, especially when the new law would soon take effect requiring even back-seat passengers to buckle up. People in the front seat have always had to buckle up by law, but from June 1, 2008, the new law requires back-seat passengers to also fasten their seat belts. This applies to passengers in taxis as well.<\/p>\n<p>Tour bus guides can no longer stand up and face their passengers while riding in a bus. They also have to sit and buckle up while the bus is moving.<\/p>\n<p>So don&#8217;t forget to buckle up when in the back seat. Also, no smoking in taxis (another new law which has taken effect).\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Shiga Prefecture has Japan&#8217;s lowest rate of people buckling up in the back seat? According to a nationwide survey conducted jointly by Japan&#8217;s prefectural police and the Japan Automobile Federation (JAF) in Oct. 2007, only 7&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shigaken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}