Declan Murphy wrote:
> On Oct 10, 9:58 am, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Scott Reynolds wrote:
>>> The 2-Belo wrote:
>>>> Comedian: Hey did you hear that in Osaka they employ yakuza gangsters
>>>> at the
>>>> airport immigration counter? When you arrive in the country, they take
>>>> the whole
>>>> finger! Har! *rimshot*
>>> Two fingers, innit?
>> According to this video ... :
>>
>> http://nettv.gov-online.go.jp/prg/prg1203.html
>>
>> ... it's both index fingers. But, make sure you watch it with a barf bag
>> handy as it insults the intelligence of anyone who has ever attended a
>> logic class or has displayed the ability to think independently of the herd.
> 
> I watched that a few months ago, and still need the barf bag. Note the
> title "Cool Japan" remains in the video player.
> 
> This thing is really starting to piss me off.

This ain't nuthin' official, but I regularly use a couple of sources 
inside Nyuukoku Kanrikyoku at Narita and KIX.  According to one of the 
people there who is at the "stands in the background and appears to make 
decisions" level, if you have your torokusho and passport in your hand 
and you talk back to the rent-a-pig that will try to shoo you into the 
"Visitor" line in Wa-go, the unwritten rule is to leave you alone and 
let you through as an honorary human being instead of a foreign animal. 
    Besides, they've already got your photo and fingerprint at your 
kuyakusho.

Of course, some of the people there do not understand the level of 
suckiness of that video.  Them that do say it was done in Kasumigaseki 
by people who don't get out much but have a large budget that must be 
wasted annually.  I'm trying to find out what prescription concoction 
they shot that hakujin in the mondo ugly striped shirt full of as I 
think I need some.

-- 
CL