On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 12:51:02 +0900, Scott Reynolds <sar@gol.com>
brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:

>On 6/5/2004 3:37 PM, Matthew Endo wrote:
>
>> Otemachi was really convenient, but of course consolidating the offices
>> in some inconvenient location (a bus ride away from Shinagawa station)
>> was a much better way to service the foreigners in the eyes of the
>> government...
>
>I also like the way they incorporated the detention facilities for the 
>poor unfortunates awaiting deportation into the same building people 
>have to use to apply for and pick up their visas. Perhaps this is 
>intended as a (not too) subtle reminder to the rest of us to keep to the 
>straight and narrow.

They bring them in around back, though.

Did you know that not very far away, just over on the next island in
fact, there is a special sort of halfway house for foreigners? I think
it's for people who may be coming in on some sort of refugee status. I
believe this is the same facility that they used a few years ago when
they had a massive homeless removal campaign in Shinjuku. They took
the homeless folks there and let them stay a couple of weeks before
kicking them out on the streets again.





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