Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf2.xephion.ne.jp!feed2.sphere.ad.jp!news1.kyowa.co.jp!spin-hsd0-tky!spinnewsgate!attnet-tokyo!not-for-mail From: Scott Reynolds Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Nagoya Immigration relocating Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 15:47:03 +0900 Organization: JENS Internet Service Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <40BEC962.2050903@hotmail.com> <2i829mFkeoohU1@uni-berlin.de> <1gewz8r.1pq451havgzcyN@yahoobb219000172012.bbtec.net> <9fi8c0d0uo7v45p350lhbrlbghvmt0kajf@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 122.pool25.dsl8mtokyo.att.ne.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp 1086677224 13899 165.76.43.122 (8 Jun 2004 06:47:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsadm@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 06:47:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en,ja In-Reply-To: <9fi8c0d0uo7v45p350lhbrlbghvmt0kajf@4ax.com> Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:14279 On 6/7/2004 7:59 PM, Michael Cash wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 12:51:02 +0900, Scott Reynolds > brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed: > >>On 6/5/2004 3:37 PM, Matthew Endo wrote: >> >>>Otemachi was really convenient, but of course consolidating the offices >>>in some inconvenient location (a bus ride away from Shinagawa station) >>>was a much better way to service the foreigners in the eyes of the >>>government... >> >>I also like the way they incorporated the detention facilities for the >>poor unfortunates awaiting deportation into the same building people >>have to use to apply for and pick up their visas. Perhaps this is >>intended as a (not too) subtle reminder to the rest of us to keep to the >>straight and narrow. > > They bring them in around back, though. Thank goodness! Wouldn't want to rub shoulders with the riffraff. > Did you know that not very far away, just over on the next island in > fact, there is a special sort of halfway house for foreigners? I think > it's for people who may be coming in on some sort of refugee status. I > believe this is the same facility that they used a few years ago when > they had a massive homeless removal campaign in Shinjuku. They took > the homeless folks there and let them stay a couple of weeks before > kicking them out on the streets again. Aha! I wondered what they ever did with that place. But how come you know all this about the halfway house for foreigners, Mike? I would guess that most Japanese people don't know about it. Heck, even Japan experts like Howard French probably have never heard of it. -- _______________________________________________________________ Scott Reynolds sar@gol.com