Comments on: Japanese government claims success in campaign against illegal immigration

By: Haf

Haf — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:38:22 +0000

How can they claim that the installment of the biometric system has anything to do with it?? They installed the system about 15 months ago, but they compare data from now and 5 years ago!

Never trust a statistics that you didn’t forge yourself!

By: Level3

Level3 — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:31:33 +0000

The practical problem with this is more mundane.
Instead of walking down to the local town office to get our gaijin cards, usually with no wait in line because the “alien registration desk” is rarely used, we have to haul ourselves at our own expense to the single Immigration Office in the whole city? [In Osaka, it means quite a long train journey for some out to the new Immigration Office on the bay.]
Add in that it’s 2 visits, one to apply, and one to pick up, IF they don’t screw up something.

Wait in line to submit a form and get a number to wait again in the waiting area? Basically a process that took maybe 1 hour of your life max will now take about 2 half-days.

Hope the hell they plan on having more than 4 or 5 open windows at the counter from now on. Or some kind of gaijin card Express Lane.

Any bets our hopes will not be met?

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:28:02 +0000

Anyone know how many people they netted annually before fingerprinting was introduced? That seems like the key to me.

By: lovely

lovely — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:39:45 +0000

fingerprinting – fight terrorism or keep out illegals – you now have the answer. if it was EVER about terrorism they would fingerprint everyone as the only terror attacks here in japan have been by the japanese themselves.

By: Rob A

Rob A — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:36:13 +0000

I suppose if it was never a real problem that it’s easy to claim success