Path: news.ccsf.jp!norn-news!news.heimat.gr.jp!news.northeye.org!gcd.org!leaf.gcd.org!news.unit0.net!feeder.erje.net!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!not-for-mail From: CL Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Immigration rant: Narita vs. Chubu Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:18:31 +0900 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <8gm7p35qhk5asjs1uprb0p48hq14ivd7dd@4ax.com> <5d085a3f-e643-493e-8f7e-1cbcde20f989@c23g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> <479698c0$0$22536$8f2e0ebb@news.shared-secrets.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: feeder.motzarella.org U2FsdGVkX18cH8hAM2QU4fyt8YlY1LU8r2DLxgUMtlASdzZbw6y8lxknKrzRq5Tl3DKYz3PhqBKhrEc17b4eTj+KTsMRxV3CpsriHC8ALHIQj/eq67vIVAUUq57n5susxHfUMy6MwYA= X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:18:47 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX18eEgaEjvCGFcid9AVHeito X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080123-2, 2008-01-23), Outbound message Cancel-Lock: sha1:XmikCM+pCOm0bfwLH1wl8dohRws= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:166665 The 2-Belo wrote: > CL totally sneezed all over fj.life.in-japan with a withering cloud of snot: > >> Oddly enough, the >> several times I have been stopped since, simply responding in Japanese >> has always led to a "Oh, you're a long-term resident? Have a nice day." >> kind of answer. > > Reading stuff like this mystifies me. I haven't been stopped and asked for ID by > anyone in this country for what, 12 years? Perhaps I look sweet and innocent? > > (Not like I wish for this trend to change, or anything...) It's happened to me 2~3 times in 20+ years and, each time it turned out that they were looking for a specific person who looked nothing like me. Asking for the torokusho was a pretext. Once they established that English was not a prerequisite, they'd show a photo and ask if I knew, or knew of the person or, if I'd seen them around the terminal. Like all of us gaijin know each other, or something ... -- CL