Declan Murphy totally sneezed all over fj.life.in-japan with a withering cloud
of snot:

>On Nov 6, 3:20 pm, The 2-Belo <the2b...@msd.bigREMOVETHISlobe.ne.jp>
>wrote:
>> We sadly announce the death of Declan Murphy on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:15:45 -0800
>> after being stricken by fj.life.in-japan Disease. The will states:
><snip>
>> >This whole thing is badly organised bad idea. Particularly with
>> >no absolutely zero facilities at Chubu airport or in Nagoya for pre-
>> >registration.
>>
>> My claim included not only the "fingerprint/photo once and forget it" for
>> visitors thing, but also included the opinion that people who have already been
>> authorized to live here permanently -- by the same government that is
>> implementing this ridiculous policy -- should not have to be treated like
>> temporary visitors, over and over, forever. It's bad enough I have to purchase
>> permission to re-enter the country at 3000 yen a pop already.
>
>There have been a few other people formally complaining, particularly
>the "expat biz" community via the various chambers of commerce,
>particularly the ECB, ANZCCJ and ACCJ. The following was emailed out
>from the Sepponian Chamber with regards to Nagoya:
>
>Central Japan International Airport - Nagoya:
>- Add 18 immigration officers during the transition period
>- Provide a dedicated queue for airline crew members and disabled/
>reduced mobility passengers
>- Install cameras/fingerprint readers at all positions and dynamically
>expand number of queues available to foreigners
>- At least initially allow mixed nationality families (at least one
>Japanese parent) to use Japanese passport holder lanes
>- Consider installing automated immigration gates during 2008
>
>which personally I don't think makes any bloody difference at all.

Me neither, because they're still "considering" installing automated cattle
gates "during 2008", which means they could be "considering" until 2009, and the
only thing that would change then is reaffirming my physical attributes -- again
and again -- to a machine instead of a human.

And "at least initially allow" mixed nationality families to use the Japanese
lanes? I don't see how some nine-year-old dual-nat Yank kid who's never been
here before slips in because of "one Japanese parent", when I've lived here
longer than the little brat's been alive.

And "initially" is how long? Another 15 years?

>Bastards. Can I have my taxes back please?

I just realized that the only right I gained with permanent residency is the
right to go into long-term debt.


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