{"id":10242,"date":"2012-05-23T04:11:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T19:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=10242"},"modified":"2012-05-23T04:53:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T19:53:07","slug":"wsj-expats-say-goodbye-to-gaijin-card-needs-more-research-beyond-expat-conceits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=10242","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: &#8220;&#8216;Expats&#8217; Say Goodbye to Gaijin Card&#8221;, needs more research beyond &#8220;Expat&#8221; conceits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Books etc. by ARUDOU Debito (click on icon):<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/inappropriatecoverthumb150x226.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8577\" title=\"inappropriatecoverthumb150x226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/inappropriatecoverthumb150x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/handbook.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1298\" title=\"HANDBOOKsemifinalcover.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/HANDBOOKsemifinalcover.jpg\" alt=\"Handbook for Newcomers, Migrants, and Immigrants to Japan\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/tshirts.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1701\" title=\"joshirtblack2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/joshirtblack2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\\&quot; width=\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/japaneseonly.html#japanese\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1700\" title=\"jobookcover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/jobookcover-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\u300c\u30b8\u30e3\u30d1\u30cb\u30fc\u30ba\u30fb\u30aa\u30f3\u30ea\u30fc\u3000\u5c0f\u6a3d\u5165\u6d74\u62d2\u5426\u554f\u984c\u3068\u4eba\u7a2e\u5dee\u5225\u300d\uff08\u660e\u77f3\u66f8\u5e97\uff09\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/japaneseonly.html#english\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1699\" title=\"japaneseonlyecover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/japaneseonlyecover-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"JAPANESE ONLY:  The Otaru Hot Springs Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemabstruso.de\/strawberries\/main.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2735\" title=\"sourstrawberriesavatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/sourstrawberriesavatar.jpg\" alt=\"sourstrawberriesavatar\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?cat=32\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4921\" title=\"debitopodcastthumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/debitopodcastthumb.jpg\" alt=\"debitopodcastthumb\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=10137\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-10142\" title=\"Fodors\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Fodors.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nUPDATES ON TWITTER: arudoudebito<br \/>\nDEBITO.ORG PODCASTS on iTunes, subscribe free<\/p>\n<p>Hi Blog. Here we have the Wall Street Journal up to its old tricks: Representing the &#8220;Expat&#8221; community&#8217;s attitudes towards Japan, doing &#8220;Japan Real Time&#8221; research that is essentially navel-gazing about Japan from a skyscraper window (or a computer screen, as it were).<\/p>\n<p>Even though the reporter, Sarah Berlow, parrots much of the net-researched stuff (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.immi-moj.go.jp\/newimmiact_1\/en\/index.html\">courtesy of the GOJ, sharing the same blinkered viewpoint of life in Japan for NJ residents<\/a>) accurately, check this bit out:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;New residents will instead be given a \u201cresidence card\u201d similar to the ones Japanese citizens carry, except for a special marking designating the holder\u2019s nationality.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nErr&#8230; wrong. Japanese citizens have no residence cards to carry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/whattodoif.html\">as we&#8217;ve discussed here on Debito.org for years<\/a>. This fact has long seeped into the consciousness of people who ACTUALLY live here, as one of the WSJ commenters duly notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>There is no such residence card for Japanese nationals. Japanese citizens usually use drivers licences, health insurance cards or passports for ID if necessary. They most certainly are not issued with these or similar residency-based cards currently, I am aware of no plans to do so, and there is no compulsory carrying of ID required for Japanese citizens (except to enter an airport). The previous system required non-Japanese to carry a credit card-sized ID card at all times (subject to penalty if not carried) and will still do so. Japanese citizens do not have to carry ID and will still not be required to do so.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Source for comments relating to requirements for resident non-Japanese :<\/em><br \/>\n<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.immi-moj.go.jp\/english\/newimmiact\/q_a_details1_english.html\">http:\/\/www.immi-moj.go.jp\/english\/newimmiact\/q_a_details1_english.html<\/a> , especially under Q1-9<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And how about this: <em><strong>&#8220;These new changes come as the government attempts to increase this number [of foreigners entering Japan], to an \u201cera of 25 million foreign visitors to Japan\u201d by 2020, a goal established in 2011.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Err&#8230; foreign tourists never had to carry Gaijin Cards in the first place (only people who had to register with residency visas of three months and up), so these changes have no connection and will have no effect. Does Ms. Berlow even have a residency visa in Japan so she might know about this from personal experience? \u00a0If not, there are whole books on this, ones so easy even the busy-getting-rich-off-their-Expat-packages-and-enjoying-their-Expat-Bubble-Enclaves Expats can read them (cf. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/handbook.html\">HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS, MIGRANTS, AND IMMIGRANTS<\/a>), so bone up.<\/p>\n<p>And there is no mention of the RIFD Gaijin Card Chipping for the new &#8220;Gaijin Residency Cards&#8221; only, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=3334\">something I&#8217;ve made a fuss about in the past<\/a>. \u00a0Ms. Berlow uses the word &#8220;track&#8221; in regards to NJ within the article, which is appropriate, for reasons she probably didn&#8217;t research enough to anticipate. \u00a0RFID enables remote tracking of people&#8217;s credit card numbers, to begin with.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/watch-this-is-how-easy-it-is-for-thieves-to-steal-everything-in-your-wallet-2012-5\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/watch-this-is-how-easy-it-is-for-thieves-to-steal-everything-in-your-wallet-2012-5<\/a><br \/>\n<object width=\"429\" height=\"295\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vp.mgnetwork.net\/viewer.swf?u=3bf950d0f0b6102f8fb5001ec92a4a0d&amp;z=JAR&amp;embed_player=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"429\" height=\"295\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/vp.mgnetwork.net\/viewer.swf?u=3bf950d0f0b6102f8fb5001ec92a4a0d&amp;z=JAR&amp;embed_player=1\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And with technological advances, as I&#8217;ve argued before, it is only a matter of time and degree before it&#8217;s capable at long distances &#8212; if it&#8217;s not already. Don your tinfoil hats, but <a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2009\/06\/cia-and-pentagon-deploy-rfid-death-chips-coming-soon-to-a-product-near-you\/\">RFID technology is already being used in military drone guidance systems for long-distance precision targeting<\/a>. You think the GOJ&#8217;s going to abdicate its wet-dream ability to keep physical track of potential foreign &#8220;illegal overstayers&#8221;, now that it has the ability to RFID chip every foreign resident from now on? Oh well, the &#8220;Expats&#8221; need not worry. They&#8217;re not in Japan forever.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, what&#8217;s the reason I&#8217;m jumping on the WSJ so much? \u00a0Because, as I&#8217;ve said, they&#8217;re up to their old tricks. \u00a0Don&#8217;t forget, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=8870\">it was the WSJ who first broke (and legitimized in English and Japanese) the story about the fictitious &#8220;Flyjin&#8221; Phenomenon<\/a>, setting the agenda <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=10081\">to tar the NJ who left (or worse, stayed for the stigma<\/a>). \u00a0Thus the WSJ&#8217;s record of &#8220;spoiling things&#8221; for NJ in Japan is on par with what critics claim Debito.org does. \u00a0Sorry, we might not have their media reach or legitimacy, but at least we do better research here, for free. \u00a0That&#8217;s a deal even a non-&#8220;Expat&#8221; can afford. \u00a0Arudou Debito<\/p>\n<p>\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Wall Street Journal May 7, 2012, 3:57 PM JST<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Expats Say Goodbye to Gaijin Card<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> JAPAN REAL TIME HOME PAGE<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> By Sarah Berlow Courtesy of TS<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/japanrealtime\/2012\/05\/07\/expats-say-goodbye-to-gaijin-card\/\">http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/japanrealtime\/2012\/05\/07\/expats-say-goodbye-to-gaijin-card\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This summer marks the end of an era for foreigners residing in Japan. Starting July 9, the 60-year-old \u201ccertificate of alien registration\u201d \u2014 the credit-card sized i.d. informally known as \u201cthe gaijin card\u201d \u2014 will go the way of yakiimo carts, weekly Astroboy broadcasts, and uniformed men punching train tickets.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>New residents will instead be given a \u201cresidence card\u201d similar to the ones Japanese citizens carry, except for a special marking designating the holder\u2019s nationality. It\u2019s part of a series of amendments to Japanese immigration law designed to create a simpler system for the government, and a way for foreigners to feel, well, slightly less alien.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>One main change: foreign residents and Japanese nationals can sign up with the government under the same resident registration system, rather than filing under separate categories, as currently required. That means foreigners generally can handle more of their bureaucratic needs only with their local municipal office, reducing the need to deal with immigration authorities. The new law is also designed to make life easier for Japanese with non-Japanese spouses. The entire family can be registered in one system, and the foreign spouse can be listed as the head of the family. Under current law, those families have to register under two different systems.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Another significant change: longer stay periods on certain visas. Some specialized workers, like engineers, can stay for up to five years instead of the current three; students can stay for up to four years and three months, up from the current maximum of two years and three months. Re-entry permits are being extended to five years from the current three years.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>According to the Immigration Bureau of Japan, the new system will better track \u201cthe residency of foreign nationals residing in Japan for the mid-to long-term with resident status, and ensure greater convenience for those foreign nationals.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The \u201cgaijin card\u201d was first created in 1952, and for many years included the holder\u2019s fingerprint \u2014 a requirement that drew complaints from foreign residents who felt they were being treated as criminals. That feature was dropped by 1999.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The changes come as Japan faces a sharp drop in foreign residents, a trend prompted by the long recession, the reduction in financial jobs following the 2008 global financial crisis, and the rising cost of living due to the strong yen. Last year\u2019s quake, tsunami, and nuclear accident didn\u2019t do much to encourage foreigners to stay.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>At the end of 2011, the number of registered foreigners in Japan had dropped by about 56,000 from 2010 to 2,078,480, the third consecutive decline, according to Japan\u2019s Ministry of Justice.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The number of foreigners who entered Japan 2011 was 7.1 million down 24.4% from 2010. These new changes come as the government attempts to increase this number, to an \u201cera of 25 million foreign visitors to Japan\u201d by 2020, a goal established in 2011.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read this post in Japanese\/\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u8a33\u306f\u3053\u3061\u3089\u226b<\/p>\n<p>WSJ 2012\/5\/8 14:56<br \/>\n\u5916\u56fd\u4eba\u767b\u9332\u5236\u5ea6\u30017\u67089\u65e5\u306b\u5ec3\u6b62\u3078 60\u5e74\u306e\u6b74\u53f2\u306b\u5e55<br \/>\n<a 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Berlow<br \/>\nENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we have the Wall Street Journal up to its old tricks: Representing the &#8220;Expat&#8221; community&#8217;s attitudes towards Japan, doing &#8220;Japan Real Time&#8221; research that is essentially navel-gazing about Japan from a skyscraper window (or a computer screen, as it were).<\/p>\n<p>Even though the reporter, Sarah Berlow, parrots much of the net-researched stuff (courtesy of the GOJ, sharing the same blinkered viewpoint of life in Japan for NJ residents) accurately, check this bit out:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New residents will instead be given a \u201cresidence card\u201d similar to the ones Japanese citizens carry, except for a special marking designating the holder\u2019s nationality.&#8221;<br \/>\nErr&#8230; wrong. Japanese citizens have no residence cards to carry, as we&#8217;ve discussed here on Debito.org for years.<\/p>\n<p>And how about this: &#8220;These new changes come as the government attempts to increase this number [of foreigners entering Japan], to an \u201cera of 25 million foreign visitors to Japan\u201d by 2020, a goal established in 2011.&#8221;<br \/>\nErr&#8230; foreign tourists never had to carry Gaijin Cards in the first place (only people who had to register with residency visas of three months and up), so these changes have no connection and will have no effect. Does Ms. Berlow even have a residency visa in Japan so she might know about this from personal experience?  If not, there are whole books on this, ones so easy even the busy-getting-rich-off-their-Expat-packages-and-enjoying-their-Expat-Bubble-Enclaves Expats can read them (cf. HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS, MIGRANTS, AND IMMIGRANTS), so bone up.<\/p>\n<p>And there is no mention of the RIFD Gaijin Card Chipping for the new &#8220;Gaijin Residency Cards&#8221; only, something I&#8217;ve made a fuss about in the past.  Ms. Berlow uses the word &#8220;track&#8221; in regards to NJ within the article, which is appropriate, for reasons she probably didn&#8217;t research enough to anticipate.  RFID enables remote tracking of people&#8217;s credit card numbers, to begin with.<\/p>\n<p>And with technological advances, as I&#8217;ve argued before, it is only a matter of time and degree before it&#8217;s capable at long distances &#8212; if it&#8217;s not already. Don your tinfoil hats, but RFID technology is already being used in military drone guidance systems for long-distance precision targeting. You think the GOJ&#8217;s going to abdicate its wet-dream ability to keep physical track of potential foreign &#8220;illegal overstayers&#8221;, now that it has the ability to RFID chip every foreign resident from now on? Oh well, the &#8220;Expats&#8221; need not worry. They&#8217;re not in Japan forever.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, what&#8217;s the reason I&#8217;m jumping on the WSJ so much?  Because, as I&#8217;ve said, they&#8217;re up to their old tricks.  Don&#8217;t forget, it was the WSJ who first broke (and legitimized in English and Japanese) the story about the fictitious &#8220;Flyjin&#8221; Phenomenon, setting the agenda to tar the NJ who left (or worse, stayed for the stigma).  Thus the WSJ&#8217;s record of &#8220;spoiling things&#8221; for NJ in Japan is on par with what critics claim Debito.org does.  Sorry, we might not have their media reach or legitimacy, but at least we do better research here, for free. 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