CL <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 01/19/2012 10:43 PM, Declan Murphy wrote:
>> What do you think of this case? Must be more to it than just a few
>> critical/negative blog posts...
>> http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2012/01/japans-immigration-control
> 
> According to at least a couple of people who claim to know him, the guy
> is something like a junior double under-sub assistant
> fuku-henshucho-dairi at Daily Gomiuri and has been doing Japan on a
> tourist visa for almost two decades ... three months in Wa, 36 hours in a
> foreign port, and back.  So, I guess that might tend to piss off the
> Immigration people just a tiny bit ... if the tax guys didn't get him
> first.  But, it has given Debit a new lease on his miserable life.


never knew him as a Japan "journalist," let alone to have a Yomiuri
association (Yom would never tolerate someone with such a sketchy visa
track record); FWIW, googling his name & Yomiuri brings up an "Asia Times"
tag, however.

beyond previous discussion, there is this:

http://www.japanprobe.com/2012/01/20/christopher-johnson-under-fire-for-gaijin-gulag-article/

and his blog does have some extremely limited examples of "journalism,"
often just blog-like, amateurish, rife with typos and in dire need of a
decent editor—but none to be confused with material *anywhere* near on a
par with the New York Times or Pulitzer-worthy:

http://globalite.posterous.com/

also he's on twitter at @cjinasia if it matters...