Declan Murphy wrote:
> Kevin Gowen wrote:
> 
>>Declan Murphy wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Kevin Gowen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Declan Murphy wrote:
>>>
>>>>>You carried a card indicating that you were a registered foreign 
>>>>>resident of Japan. You were in the country on a visa that had required a 
>>>>>certificate of eligibility. You were not required to line up with the 
>>>>>foreigners at the immigration desk if/when re-entering Japan. Presumably 
>>>>>you continued to breathe during the periods in which your passport and 
>>>>>you were over here. You would have met all of the criteria a Japanese 
>>>>>credit card company would've required. Ergo, a resident. Even some of 
>>>>>the students on shugaku visas have obtained credit cards.
>>>>>
>>>>>As for not "living" in Japan, well OK you were a JET. Technically its 
>>>>>life Jim, but not as we know it.
>>>>
>>>>No, I lacked a 住民票. I did not live in Japan.
>>>>
>>>>- Kevin
>>>
>>>Ahh - a fruitloop who translates 住民票 as "residency document" or some
>>>such. That nuff nuff in Hokkaido probably does too. Last time I looked
>>>around there were quite a few breathing, fornicating, taxpaying
>>>homosapiens living around town without a 住民票. I hope you intend to
>>>pursue your career with the same levels of enthusiasm you have when
>>>milking the snake, as you would do well.
>>
>>Well, take it up with the government. That's how Japan has no homeless
>>population, you see.
> 
> 
> In my case (single gaigin, no kids) I'm not worried about not having a
> 住民票. I'm almost not confused by the term "resident". In the case of
> the homeless, the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare and other
> government agencies are well aware that there is a large homeless
> population, and seem to have no ideas better than those of their
> bureaucratic counterparts in gaikokuland struggling with similar
> problems. Regardless of whether they have a 住民票 or not, I'm quite
> sure that any homeless person living on the streets of Tokyo or Osaka
> would (at best) laugh in the face of any Floridian weenie who suggested
> that they were not "living in Japan".

Take a moment and think very carefully. Rub two brain cells together and
think about how much I pause I would give the derisive laughter of a
deatbeat living on the street.

Was it your intention to make Brett homeless when you fired him?

>>>Do you still have the credit card?
>>
>>No, I cancelled it before I left.
> 
> 
> Pity. It would have been interesting to see what the credit card
> company's reaction was if they found/were told that they had a gaigin
> customer, continuing to use the card and pay the bills while no longer
> residing in the country.

I had to have a guarantor to get the card, so that wouldn't have been
very nice.

- Kevin