On 11月21日, 午前8:12, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> John W. wrote:
> > On Nov 21, 2:36 am, Jim Breen <jimbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> "Fingerprint checks on foreigners arriving in Japan matched five people
> >> to an immigration blacklist on the first day, the Justice Ministry says."
>
> > I think it'd be far more useful, and lucrative, to catch Japanese
> > criminals going to/from foreign countries. But I doubt those
> > statistics will get as much press.
>
> If you speak with any of the legal attaches from any of the foreign
> embassies that subject will eventually come up.  People deported from
> other countries for criminal code violations there are almost never
> stopped when they arrive back in Japan and local bad guys move in and
> out freely.  One of the jokes going around is that overseas law
> enforcement should dress bad guys in sweat shirts bearing a photo of the
> current Justice Minister and Osama with "I am a friend of the Justice
> Minister's friend" written in Japanese on the front and back.
>
> --
> CL

That's dry. Don't Japanese felons lose the right to possess passports,
like Americans?