{"id":2382,"date":"2009-02-19T09:51:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T00:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2009-02-19T12:59:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T03:59:52","slug":"goj-claims-victory-in-halving-overstayers-campaign-maintains-myth-that-nj-fingerprinting-did-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=2382","title":{"rendered":"GOJ claims victory in “halving overstayers” campaign, maintains myth that NJ fingerprinting did it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. The GOJ has patted itself on the back for being about to reach its goal of halving the number of overstaying NJ by the target date of 2010.<\/p>\n

Congrats. But piggybacking on this cheer is the lie that fingerprinting NJ at the border helped do it.<\/p>\n

Wrong. As we’ve discussed here before<\/a>, fingerprinting and collecting other biometric data at the border does not result in an instantaneous check<\/a>. It takes time. In fact, the first day they raised a cheer for snagging NJ at the border, it was for passport issues, not prints<\/a>. And they have never publicly offered stats separating those caught by documentation and those fingered by biometric data (nor have we stats for how many were netted before the fingerprinting program was launched, to see if there is really any difference). So we let guilt by associated data justify a program that targets NJ regardless of residency status and criminalizes them whenever they cross back into Japan<\/a>. Bad social science, bad public policy, and now rotten interpretations of the data. Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n

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Number of foreigners overstaying visas in Japan nearly halves in 5 yrs<\/strong><\/p>\n

Feb 16 2009, Associated Press. Courtesy of Japan Probe.<\/a><\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=D96D065O1&show_article=1
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\n (AP) – TOKYO, Feb. 17 (Kyodo)\u2014The number of foreign nationals who stayed in Japan after their visas expired nearly halved to around 113,000 from 219,000 in the five years to Jan. 1, according to a survey by the Justice Ministry’s Immigration Bureau released Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The number of those who entered Japan illegally in the same period also fell, to around an estimated 15,000-23,000 from 30,000, the bureau said. The estimates are based on information given by foreign nationals caught by law-enforcement authorities, it said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In December 2003, the government came up with a plan to halve the number of people staying illegally in Japan in five years. The latest figures suggest the goal has more or less been achieved.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The number of people overstaying their visas began rising sharply in the 1990s, peaking at around 300,000 in 1993. The number has gradually been declining since.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Immigration Bureau said it has stepped up its efforts, jointly with police, to crack down on those overstaying their visas — especially since 2004, when the government’s plan was put into effect.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The introduction of a biometric system has helped immigration officials stem the re-entry of those who have been deported, the bureau said. In the year since it was introduced in November 2007, 846 people have been refused entry on the basis of biometric verification.<\/strong><\/p>\n

By nationality, South Koreans topped the list of those staying longer than allowed as of Jan. 1 at around 24,000, followed 18,000 Chinese, 17,000 Filipinos, 6,000 Thais and 5,000 Taiwanese, according to the survey.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/politics\/news\/20090217-OYT1T00300.htm
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The GOJ has patted itself on the back for being about to reach its goal of halving the number of overstaying NJ by the target date of 2010.<\/p>\n

Congrats. But piggybacking on this cheer is the lie that fingerprinting NJ at the border helped do it.<\/p>\n

Wrong. As we’ve discussed here before, fingerprinting and collecting other biometric data at the border does not result in an instantaneous check. It takes time. In fact, the first day they raised a cheer for snagging NJ at the border, it was for passport issues, not prints. And they have never publicly offered stats separating those caught by documentation and those fingered by biometric data (nor have we stats for how many were netted before the fingerprinting program was launched, to see if there is really any difference). So we let guilt by associated data justify a program that targets NJ regardless of residency status and criminalizes them whenever they cross back into Japan. Bad social science, bad public policy, and now rotten interpretations of the data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,33,5,4,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-social-science","category-fingerprinting-nj","category-human-rights","category-japanese-government","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382","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=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}