Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.germany.com!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!not-for-mail From: CL Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: The hype has begun Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:18:04 +0900 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <57b67197-7155-4cd1-8654-09eebec498e7@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: feeder.motzarella.org U2FsdGVkX1/t53XPoYFLzuHUmzOvzBerwNQ/QB9WDmM4eq33raQJjVrmG0e8X5Ds1Kp0InVJFJs6O1kXP+WQ2T25GKrMKFfERY/5mkUjt0NWZOJO8TdKaCLNJTzE3YgPmeqJwI2PkeI= X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:18:22 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <57b67197-7155-4cd1-8654-09eebec498e7@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com> X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX19J2gYe5CQZyfI29P7vQtnq X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 071121-0, 2007-11-21), Outbound message Cancel-Lock: sha1:AuUL/zjSiGpAYHb7nzNC5Pi2Iu4= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:166348 etakajp@gmail.com wrote: > That's dry. Don't Japanese felons lose the right to possess passports, > like Americans? No, they don't. You can never be licensed to own a katana or a hunting rifle, but you don't lose your passport. They even have a system in Japan that if a convicted felon doesn't repeat for ten years, the Japanese police tell foreign embassies that they have no police record at all. I worked on one case in which a very highly ranked yakuza served ten years for murder (he beheaded his opponent with a short sword and got a reduced sentence because his opponent had a sword, too), was released and went into book, television, and movie script writing, making a ton of "legitimate" money. Since the other crimes he committed in the next ten years were not worse than murder (they were mostly arrests for illegal possession of swords and handguns and waving them around when he got drunk), the police told the US Embassy that he had a clean record. Unfortunately, the FBI knew better and he was arrested for lying on a visa application when he tried to visit the condo he'd purchased in Honolulu. And, when released felons who were found guilty of "lesser" felonies, like fraud or theft, apply for visas and say they have no criminal record on their application there is a very good chance that the Japanese police will verify that. Some of it depends on who they are and some of it is luck. -- CL