{"id":1809,"date":"2008-07-12T14:00:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T05:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2008-07-12T14:01:32","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T05:01:32","slug":"jenkins-get-his-permanent-residency-in-record-time-congratulations-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=1809","title":{"rendered":"Jenkins get his Permanent Residency in record time. Congratulations, but…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHi Blog. \u00a0Just heard yesterday that Charles Jenkins, long-suffering veteran of North Korea (who got a very harsh life after defecting from the US military from South Korea, before I was even born!<\/a>), just got his Permanent Residency (eiuuken) in record time (a coupla weeks). \u00a0And with fewer years spent here (four) than the average applicant (generally five years if married to a Japanese, ten if not married<\/a>). \u00a0With personal consideration from Justice Minister Hatoyama.<\/p>\n

Congratulations Mr Jenkins. \u00a0Seriously.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0I’m very happy you can stay here with your family as long as you like, and may you have a peaceful and happy rest of your life out on Sadogashima. \u00a0<\/p>\n

But I wish the often strict procedures given other applicants<\/a> could have applied to him as well. \u00a0Again, as with the case of Fujimori<\/a>\u00a0(who was “naturalized” in about the same amount of procedural time) and certain sports figures<\/a>, politics keeps infiltrating the application process for assimilation. \u00a0Inevitable, some might say, but still a shame when there are people as eminently qualified as Mr Jenkins also being refused. \u00a0More on that here from the Japan Times<\/a>. \u00a0Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n

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Jenkins granted permanent residency status<\/span><\/h1>\n

Japan Today\/Kyodo News Friday 11th July, 02:08 PM JST<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.japantoday.com\/category\/national\/view\/jenkins-granted-permanent-residency-status<\/a>
\nCourtesy of oogu<\/p>\n

TOKYO \u2014The Japanese government will grant U.S. citizen Charles Jenkins, the husband of a repatriated Japanese abductee to North Korea, permanent residency status, Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama said Friday. Jenkins, a former U.S. Army sergeant who deserted to North Korea, married Hitomi Soga there and lived in the country almost 40 years, came to Japan with the couple\u2019s two North Korean-born daughters in July 2004 after being reunited with Soga in Jakarta.<\/p>\n

The Justice Ministry made the decision only half a month after Jenkins applied for the status June 24. Usually, foreign nationals need about six months to obtain permanent residency status. Jenkins, 68, has been living in his wife\u2019s hometown on Sado Island in the Sea of Japan since completing a 30-day detention for desertion at a U.S. Army base in Japan. He acquired temporary residency status as Soga\u2019s spouse and is required to renew it every three years. With permanent residency status, Jenkins will not be required to go through further renewals.
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Just heard yesterday that Charles Jenkins, long-suffering veteran of North Korea (who got a very harsh life after defecting from the US military from South Korea, before I was even born!), just got his Permanent Residency (eiuuken) in record time (a coupla weeks). And with fewer years spent here (four) than the average applicant (generally five years if married to a Japanese, ten if not married). With personal consideration from Justice Minister Hatoyama.<\/p>\n

Congratulations Mr Jenkins. Seriously. I’m very happy you can stay here with your family as long as you like, and may you have a peaceful and happy rest of your life out on Sadogashima. <\/p>\n

But I wish the often strict procedures given other applicants could have applied to him as well. Again, as with the case of Fujimori (who was “naturalized” in about the same amount of procedural time) and certain sports figures, politics keeps infiltrating the application process for assimilation. Inevitable, some might say, but still a shame when there are people as eminently qualified as Mr Jenkins being refused…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,26,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-assimilation","category-ironies-hypocrisies","category-japanese-government","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809","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=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}