Jim Breen wrote:
> 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).
> 
Same thing happened to me here in December. I just couldn't get across
to her that someone that had a resident ID didn't need to fill out the
tourist entry form. I finally told her that I wouldn't throw it back at
her, but she couldn't make me waste time filling it out.

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