Japan exempts programmers’ jury duty because they are “too busy”
According to Mainichi, for new citizen judge system planning to be introduced in May 2009, Japanese supreme court developed guidance that what kind of jobs are excusable to decline jury duty summons.
The jobs list, having over 10 jobs and situations as initial draft, includes System Engineer (often said “SE”, a bit different from the original meaning. SE is now a Japanese IT industry parlance means senior software engineer) because “they need to be dispatched for emergency in information-system trouble”.
A bill for the citizen judge system states refusal of duty is only permitted when selected citizen are: over 70 years old, student, severely ill, in charge of caring relatives and minors living together, or attending causes brutal mental and/or economical loss.
See Also:
Face of the lay judge system – The Japan Times Online
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air conditioning, power generation, IT equipment and management software. But, what set the tone for what is going on in Japan is this blog post by Forrester. Japanese Systems Engineers – Too busy firefighting to do jury duty? I want to thankAkky Akimoto of Asiajinfor pointing out a story in Japan’s Mainichi newspaper about Exemptions for Jury Duty in Japan (article in Japanese). Akky points out that “Systems Engineer” is one of the jobs in a special list compiled by Japan’s law courts; a list of people who have
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