Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed2.dti.ad.jp!newsfeed1.dti.ad.jp!giga-nspixp2!spinnewsgate!attnet-tokyo!not-for-mail From: Scott Reynolds Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Nagoya Immigration relocating Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 19:42:07 +0900 Organization: JENS Internet Service Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <40BEC962.2050903@hotmail.com> <2i829mFkeoohU1@uni-berlin.de> <1gewz8r.1pq451havgzcyN@yahoobb219000172012.bbtec.net> <9fi8c0d0uo7v45p350lhbrlbghvmt0kajf@4ax.com> <9h0bc09kagpu1asrrrl8cls0jrccq5oqju@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 122.pool25.dsl8mtokyo.att.ne.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp 1086691327 10755 165.76.43.122 (8 Jun 2004 10:42:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsadm@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 10:42:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en,ja In-Reply-To: <9h0bc09kagpu1asrrrl8cls0jrccq5oqju@4ax.com> Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:14293 On 6/8/2004 6:12 PM, Michael Cash wrote: > On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 15:47:03 +0900, Scott Reynolds > brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed: >>But how come you know all this about the halfway house for foreigners, >>Mike? I would guess that most Japanese people don't know about it. Heck, >>even Japan experts like Howard French probably have never heard of it. > > I know about it because it's on the main drag down at the Ooi Wharf. > Loaded containers headed into K-Line (Berth #2) line up right in front > of it. It's not unusual to see a few foreigners coming and going from > there. I'm glad to hear that they are allowed to come and go freely. > The way I know about the homeless part of it is a couple of years ago > I read a couple of Japanese books about the homeless situation and it > was mentioned in one of them. I remember seeing stuff on TV and in the newspapers when they built the housing for the homeless, which they emphasized was to be temporary. I guess they just meant that the homeless residents were temporary, since it would appear that the buildings are still there. -- _______________________________________________________________ Scott Reynolds sar@gol.com