Scott Reynolds <scottreyn@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm curious about the practical aspects when traveling internationally.

I've tried that 2-passprt thingy once, before I was a J citizen.  Went
to Taiwan from Japan and left on one passport but enterd on another one,
and vice versa. No problems (except that I had given the ferry company
my Japanese name for when I bought my ticket and the immigration officer
in Taiwan wanted to know why it didn't match my passport (they got a
passenger list from the ferry company). Showing them my Alien Card, with
two names written on the front of it, solved the problem.

Anything is possible, if it is reasonably explainable.
> If the Japanese immigration people see that you seem to be using two
> passports, what will they do?

If you are a J citizen, you never show them any passport except the J
passprt - anything else would be extremely foolish, IMpnsHO.

> exit stamp from the country you  just left

No such things in most countries I have been to. :-)

<anecdote>
Some years ago, when the USSR was still big, alive, and kicking, I had
been there one certain year and upon coming back to Western Europe,
instead of lining up for immigration with all the other passengers of
that Tupolew flight (as I had done on my previous trip, at which time I
had been interrogated at length as to why the heck I had gone to the
evil empire), I just ambled around a bit in the international section of
the airport and on the next opportunity lined up with passengers who had
just come in from Turkey. No questions asked. Not that I had anything to
hide, I was just curious to see whether I couldn't "beat the system", so
to speak.
</anecdote>

The worst that would happen to a certified paleface in Japan as a
consequence of passport shenanigans would probably be loss of
citizenship and expulsion. Bad enough, but not harmful to your bones.

Well, just a few rambling ideas...

Al