Declan Murphy wrote:
> On Jan 22, 5:53 pm, Jim Breen <jimbr...@gmail.com> wrote:

>>To be frank, I never knew residents used to be able to go through the
>>nihonjin line. I could have done it when I was a resident.
> 
> How long ago were you nihoning then? At Nagoya (old Komaki) the "re-
> entrants" was up on the Japanese passport signs at least 1997ish.
> Can't recall if it was kanji only or not back then though.

2000/2001. I only re-entered once. (I remember I came in from
London on a BA flight, and the stewardess got her knickers knotted
because I refused to take a landing card. She just couldn't grasp
the fact that the re-entry card took its place).

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Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学