Japan's parliament on Saturday passed a bill that will prohibit ticket scalping for concerts and sports events in the run-up to the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics in 2020.The legislation, unanimously approved by the House of Councillors in the predawn hours following its passage Tuesday in the lower house, bans the resale of tickets at prices higher than their original ones and taking possession of tickets for the purpose of scalping.Violators of the new law will face a jail term of up to one year or fines of up to 1 million yen ($8,800), or both.In Japan, there had been no law to control o…READ FULL ARTICLE