Chinese Student Not Deported For Working As Hostess

It it’s a legit business and they’re not evading tax etc I don’t see why working as a host(ess) should be disallowed. If I remember correctly I was allowed to work up to 20 hours a week on my student visa.

From personal experience, I hate the student visa rules.

Under a full-time student visa, you are allowed to work a mere 28 hours per week. Under a language-school or research student status, you can only work 14 hours per week.

Unless you are getting a really good hourly wage (which I can on the side teaching English) or are getting money from Mommy and Daddy back home (and especially with the looming price hikes on food) it seems almost impossible to support yourself legally in Japan as a student, especailly if you pay your own tuition, on maybe 800/yen an hour for only 28 hours per week.

And with the recent laws requiring employers to be more strict on ID checks, and immigration crackdowns, it’s probably a lot harder to get hte necessary second under-the-table job to make ends meet.
Basically they’re creating more crime, making legitimate work to survive a crime, and proudly trumpeting more and more work raids as proof of need of MORE restrictions to stop “gaijin crime”. Assholes.

If you can keep your grades up, I don’t see why there should be any restriction to the number of hours per week worked, especially during vacations, the story seems to imply the Japanese government doesn’t want us earning more than is “necessary” for some bullshit reason, even though there’s a labor shortage, so it’S not like we’re stealing jobs. And I guess by their calculations 90,000 yen per month minus taxes, minus insurance, is all that is “necessary” to live in Japan AND be able to pay tuition.

So I don’t know which side is worse, the Immigration folks for trying to throw her out, or the judge for making an exception, becuase it’s important that there be enough foreign sex workers in Japan.
Rightists vs. rightists.

As long as a student is legally and work within the legal limits should be OK.