{"id":15863,"date":"2019-12-11T13:31:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T21:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=15863"},"modified":"2019-12-13T15:32:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T23:32:54","slug":"every-foreign-guest-must-present-passport-for-photocopying-at-hotel-crown-hills-kokura-japanese-police-up-to-old-tricks-in-fukuoka-prefecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=15863","title":{"rendered":"“Every Foreign Guest must present passport for photocopying” at Hotel Crown Hills Kokura; Japanese Police up to same old unlawful tricks in Fukuoka Prefecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0Despite years of articles and corrections made by official bodies, the Japanese Police are still bending the laws to have Japanese hotels engage in racial profiling, targeting all “Foreign Guests” (not “Foreign Tourists” as the law explicitly says), and demanding they produce ID for inspection and photocopying, including passports. \u00a0More on all that here<\/a>, here,\u00a0here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Debito.org Reader MR sent word that the latest skulduggery can be found courtesy of the Fukuoka Prefectural Police at an establishment named “Hotel Crown Hills Kokura” in Kitakyushu.<\/p>\n

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MR<\/strong>: I made a reservation for a buddy on Japanese-language Rakuten Travel (\u697d\u5929\u30c8\u30e9\u30d9\u30eb) website at the Hotel Crown Hills Kokura. \u00a0At check in tonight (12\/9\/19) at around 7:45PM, the Front Desk asked for his passport to photocopy. \u00a0He is a Permanent Resident (\u6c38\u4f4f\u8005), so I intervened and told them so. \u00a0They then immediately withdrew the request for the passport, but still asked for and checked his Gaijin Card (\u5728\u7559\u30ab\u30fc\u30c9).<\/em><\/p>\n

To their credit, the clerks at the Front Desk were cool, and I have nothing against them given this sign from the Fukuoka Police at the counter. \u00a0MR<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Here we have another multilingual sign (Japanese, English, Korean, Chinese, and Arabic) at a hotel front produced by the Japanese Police that ignores the law and encourages racial profiling. \u00a0This one not only lists the approval of the Fukuoka Prefectural Police (and erroneously cites the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare<\/a>), but also all Fukuoka Prefectural Public Health Departments (Fukuoka Kennai Kaku Hokenjo<\/em>). \u00a0Even though we’ve already had at least one Hokenjo<\/em> (in Mito) correct the overzealous local police before on the letter of the law<\/a>, which is:<\/p>\n

If you have an address in Japan, you do not have to show any ID at a hotel check in<\/a>. \u00a0Just write that address in the hotel guest book. \u00a0That goes for Japanese and NJ residents of Japan. \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The law on hotel<\/a> (and minpaku<\/a>) ID checks only applies to foreign tourists without an address in Japan. \u00a0So demand it be it enforced (download a file to help you do so here<\/a>). \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, if you want to do what Debito.org Reader Onur did some months ago, contact the local Hokenjo and get the law corrected.<\/a> \u00a0Clearly the Japanese police are not going to police themselves. \u00a0Debito Arudou, Ph.D.<\/p>\n

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Submitter MR: I made a reservation for a buddy on Japanese-language Rakuten Travel (\u697d\u5929\u30c8\u30e9\u30d9\u30eb) website at the Hotel Crown Hills Kokura. \u00a0At check in tonight (12\/9\/19) at around 7:45PM, the Front Desk asked for his passport to photocopy. \u00a0He is a Permanent Resident (\u6c38\u4f4f\u8005), so I intervened and told them so. \u00a0They then immediately withdrew the request for the passport, but still asked for and checked his Gaijin Card (\u5728\u7559\u30ab\u30fc\u30c9).<\/p>\n

COMMENT: The hotel displayed yet another multilingual sign (Japanese, English, Korean, Chinese, and Arabic) produced by the Japanese Police that ignores the law and encourages racial profiling. \u00a0This one not only lists the approval of the Fukuoka Prefectural Police (and erroneously cites the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare), but also all Fukuoka Prefectural Public Health Departments (Fukuoka Kennai Kaku Hokenjo). \u00a0Even though we’ve already had at least one Hokenjo (in Mito) correct the overzealous local police before on the letter of the law, which is:<\/p>\n

If you have an address in Japan, you do not have to show any ID at a hotel check in. \u00a0Just write that address in the hotel guest book. \u00a0That goes for Japanese and NJ residents of Japan. The law on hotel (and minpaku) ID checks only applies to foreign tourists without an address in Japan. \u00a0So demand it be it enforced. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, if you want to do what Debito.org Reader Onur did some months ago, contact the local Hokenjo and get the law corrected. \u00a0Clearly the Japanese police are not going to police themselves. Or if you want to do something to stop this happening to you, download a file substantiating that you don’t have to show any ID as a resident of Japan here: https:\/\/www.debito.org\/newhotelpassportlaw.jpg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,54,43,33,4,10,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embedded-racism","category-pinprick-protests","category-bad-business-practices","category-fingerprinting-nj","category-japanese-government","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime","category-problematic-foreign-treatment","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15863","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=15863"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15874,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15863\/revisions\/15874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}