{"id":13491,"date":"2015-08-25T14:42:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T00:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=13491"},"modified":"2015-08-29T12:46:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T22:46:55","slug":"more-public-policy-bullying-of-nj-ldp-bill-to-fine-imprison-and-deport-nj-for-bogus-visas-gizou-taizai-e-g-visa-irregularities-from-job-changes-or-divorces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=13491","title":{"rendered":"More public-policy bullying of NJ:  LDP Bill to fine, imprison, and deport NJ for &#8220;fraud visas&#8221; (gizou taizai), e.g., visa &#8220;irregularities&#8221; from job changes or divorces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>eBooks, Books, and more from Dr. ARUDOU, Debito (click on icon):<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/handbook.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11452\" title=\"Guidebookcover.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Guidebookcover.jpg\" alt=\"Guidebookcover.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/japaneseonly.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/japaneseonlyebookcovertext-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"japaneseonlyebookcovertext\" 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=\"Handbook2ndEdcover.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Handbook2ndEdcover.jpg\" alt=\"Handbook for Newcomers, Migrants, and Immigrants to Japan\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/inappropriate.html\"><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\/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=\"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=12473\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/FodorsJapan2014cover-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"FodorsJapan2014cover\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nUPDATES ON TWITTER: arudoudebito<br \/>\nDEBITO.ORG PODCASTS on iTunes, subscribe free<br \/>\n&#8220;LIKE&#8221; US on Facebook at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/debitoorg\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/debitoorg<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/handbookimmigrants\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/handbookimmigrants<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JapaneseOnlyTheBook\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JapaneseOnlyTheBook<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BookInAppropriate\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BookInAppropriate<\/a><br \/>\nIf you like what you read and discuss on Debito.org, please consider helping us stop hackers and defray maintenance costs with a little donation via my webhoster:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/donate.cgi?id=17701\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.newdream.net\/donate4.gif\" alt=\"Donate towards my web hosting bill!\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>All donations go towards website costs only. Thanks for your support!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Hi Blog. Some more wicked policy is in the pipeline, giving the government (and the general public) even more discretion to target NJ for criminal penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the policy below in the Japan Times article, creating a new form of criminal called &#8220;<em>gizou taizaisha<\/em>&#8221; (&#8220;bogus visa holder&#8221; in the translation, but more in the spirit would be &#8220;fraudulent visa holder&#8221;). \u00a0This\u00a0has\u00a0been discussed on Debito.org before in the context of fabricating a\u00a0foreign crime wave (where despite statistically plummeting for many years now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=11647\">the police can\u00a0still claim foreign crime is rising because\u00a0in Japan it\u00a0allegedly &#8220;cannot be grasped through\u00a0statistics&#8221;<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, this issue only applies to NJ, and this means <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/whattodoif.html#checkpoint\">more racial profiling<\/a>. \u00a0But for those of you who think you&#8217;re somehow exempt because you&#8217;re engaged in white-collar professions, think again.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration and the NPA are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=11327\">going beyond ways to merely &#8220;reset your visa clock&#8221;<\/a> and make your visa more temporary based on mere bureaucratic technicalities. \u00a0This time they&#8217;re going to criminalize your mistakes, and even your lifestyle choices.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article below and consider the permutations that are not fully covered within it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Consider how you could lose your current visa because you changed jobs from one arbitrary work classification to another? \u00a0(Or worse, because your new employer messes up your paperwork?)<\/li>\n<li>Consider how you could lose your Spouse Visa because, oh, you get a divorce or your spouse DIES! (Yes, people have lost their Spouse Visas because of that; however, until now, you had a grace period, meaning the remaining validity of the visa period to make life adjustments. \u00a0Not any more, under this new system.)<\/li>\n<li>Consider how vulnerable NJ\u00a0become to any Japanese employer\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/community\/2004\/03\/30\/issues\/downloadable-discrimination\/\">or neighbor, ex-lover, or jilted person in a love triangle<\/a>, for that matter), who can easily report you as a criminal (or at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/whattodoif.html#arrested\">put you through the horrible experience of criminal investigation in Japan<\/a>) via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=13421\">anonymous Government &#8220;Snitch Sites&#8221; empowering the general public to bully NJ residents<\/a>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Which means you&#8217;re more likely stuck in whatever dead-end profession or relationship (and at their whim and mercy). \u00a0For if you dare change something, under this new Bill you might wind up\u00a0arrested, interrogated in a police cell for weeks, convicted, fined, thrown in jail, and then deported in the end (because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6436\">you can&#8217;t renew<\/a>\u00a0your visa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=9265\">while in jail<\/a>). \u00a0Overnight, your life can change and all your investments lost in Japan &#8212; simply because of an oversight or subterfuge.<\/p>\n<p>Source for these issues at Higuchi &amp; Arudou&#8217;s bilingual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/handbook.html\">HANDBOOK FOR NEWCOMERS, MIGRANTS, AND IMMIGRANTS TO JAPAN<\/a>. \u00a0NJ in Japan already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=9644\">have very few protected human or constitutional rights as it is<\/a>. \u00a0This law proposes taking away even more of them, and empowering the Japanese police and general public to target and bully them even further. \u00a0Dr. ARUDOU, Debito<\/p>\n<p>\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>Immigration crackdown seen as paving the way for state to expel valid visa-holders<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> The Japan Times, August 19, 2015 (excerpt), courtesy lots of people<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>[&#8230;] Prime Minister Shinzo Abe\u2019s government has submitted a bill to revise the immigration control law that will stiffen the crackdown on individuals it views as an emerging threat to public safety.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>While it is unclear whether the bill will be passed during the current Diet session that ends in late September, lawyers and activists warn it is intended to give authorities leeway to weed out foreigners they consider \u201cundesirable.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Not only that, the envisaged law is so broadly defined that its impact could in reality extend to any foreigners who have mishandled their paperwork in applying for visas, they said, adding it even risks stoking xenophobia among the Japanese public.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The revision takes aim at what the government tentatively calls bogus visa holders, or giso taizai-sha (those staying under false visa status). The government has no official definition for them, but the term typically refers to foreigners whose activity is out of keeping with their visa status.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cThe tricky thing about them is that they are outwardly legal,\u201d immigration official Tomoatsu Koarai said, adding they possess a legitimate visa status and therefore are registered on a government database as legal non-Japanese residents.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Examples include \u201cspouses\u201d of Japanese nationals married under sham marriages, \u201cengineers\u201d whose job has nothing to do with engineering, and \u201cexchange students\u201d who no longer engage in academic activities after facing expulsion, the Justice Ministry said. Unlike visa overstayers, whose illegal status is clear-cut, these bogus visa holders theoretically remain legal until they are apprehended and have their visas revoked.[&#8230;]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Under the current framework, bogus immigrants are stripped of their visa if apprehended, but they face no criminal penalty, although they will either be deported immediately or instructed to return home within a month, depending on the circumstances.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The law, if enacted, will subject those who obtained or renewed visas through \u201cforgery and other unjust measures\u201d to criminal penalties, including up to three years\u2019 imprisonment and\/or a maximum fine of \u00a53 million. The ministry believes imposing criminal penalties will serve as a deterrent.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The envisaged law will also expand the scope of foreigners subject to visa revocation.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Currently, foreign residents are allowed to retain their visa for three months after stopping their permitted activities. The bill calls for scrapping this three-month rule and ensuring that foreigners who discontinue their activities forfeit their residency status the instant they are caught engaging in something different or \u201cplanning to do so.\u201d [&#8230;]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Lawyer Koji Yamawaki, for one, pointed out that requirements for criminal penalties were too broad.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Similar court rulings in the past suggest the phrase \u201cforgery and other unjust measures\u201d does not just refer to cases involving obvious deception and mendacity, he said. It could also include simple missteps on the part of foreigners in filling out application forms, such as failing to notify immigration beforehand of some minor facts concerning their life in Japan, he said.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cFor example, it\u2019s often the case foreigners applying for a working visa don\u2019t inform immigration of the fact they live together with someone they are not legally married to, because they thought the information was not relevant. But the reality is many of these omissions have been deemed by immigration serious enough to revoke one\u2019s visa,\u201d Yamawaki said.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What\u2019s worse, after the law\u2019s enactment, these minor lapses could not only cost foreigners their residency status, but hold them criminally liable.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cThe point is, under the intended law, even if you\u2019re not being actively deceitful, you could still be prosecuted for simply not mentioning facts that immigration wanted to be aware of \u2014 no matter how irrelevant and trivial they may be. The law is that broad,\u201d the lawyer said. [&#8230;]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>One such example is technical interns who work under a state-backed foreign traineeship program called the Technical Intern Training Program.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Under the discredited initiative, allegations are rife that interns have been underpaid, forcedly overworked and abused sexually and verbally by unscrupulous employers. Fed up with subpar wage standards, a record 4,851 interns fled their workplaces in 2014, according to Justice Ministry data.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>As the ministry acknowledges, these \u201crunaways\u201d will be considered in violation of the envisaged law once it takes effect, too, because \u2014 technically speaking \u2014 they no longer are fulfilling their duties as \u201ctechnical interns\u201d as per their visas.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Full article at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2015\/08\/19\/national\/crime-legal\/immigration-crackdown-seen-paving-way-state-expel-valid-visa-holders\/\">http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2015\/08\/19\/national\/crime-legal\/immigration-crackdown-seen-paving-way-state-expel-valid-visa-holders\/<\/a><br \/>\nENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According the Japan Times re a new Bill submitted by the LDP to penalize &#8220;fraud visa holders&#8221;, Immigration and the NPA go beyond merely &#8220;resetting your visa clock&#8221; and making your visa more temporary due to bureaucratic technicalities.  This time they&#8217;re going to criminalize your mistakes, and even your lifestyle choices:<\/p>\n<p>Consider how you could lose your current visa because you changed jobs from one arbitrary work classification to another?  (Or worse yet, because your new employer messes up your paperwork?)<\/p>\n<p>Consider how you could lose your Spouse Visa because, oh, you get a divorce or your spouse DIES! (Yes, people have lost their Spouse Visas because of that; however, until now, you had a grace period, meaning the remaining validity of the visa period to make life adjustments.  Not any more, under this new system.)<\/p>\n<p>Consider how vulnerable NJ become to any Japanese employer (or neighbor, ex-lover, or jilted person in a love triangle, for that matter), who can easily report you as a criminal (or at least put you through the horrible experience of criminal investigation in Japan) via anonymous Government &#8220;Snitch Sites&#8221; empowering the general public to bully NJ residents?<\/p>\n<p>Which means you&#8217;re likely stuck in whatever dead-end profession or relationship (and at their whim and mercy).  For if you dare change something, under this new Bill you might wind up arrested, interrogated in a police cell for weeks, convicted, fined, thrown in jail, and then deported in the end (because you can&#8217;t renew your visa while in jail).  Overnight, your life can change and all your investments lost in Japan &#8212; simply because of an oversight or subterfuge.  Yet more human rights being taken away from NJ residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,34,33,38,5,12,4,10,16,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-social-science","category-exclusionism","category-fingerprinting-nj","category-handbook-for-newcomers","category-human-rights","category-immigration-assimilation","category-japanese-government","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime","category-labor-issues","category-unsustainable-japanese-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}