{"id":626,"date":"2007-10-05T11:55:29","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T02:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=626"},"modified":"2008-06-05T23:38:34","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T14:38:34","slug":"ignore-recent-news-articles-non-zainichi-perm-residents-will-be-fingerprinted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"Ignore recent news articles: Non-Zainichi Perm Residents WILL be fingerprinted"},"content":{"rendered":"

“WHO ARE YOU GOING TO BELIEVE–ME, OR YOUR LYING EYES?”<\/strong><\/em>–Groucho Marx<\/p>\n

Hi Blog. I’ve been asked a number of questions about some recent news articles, which indicate that “long-term” or Permanent Residents will NOT be fingerprinted at the border from November 20, as per newly-promulgated anti-terrorism laws.<\/p>\n

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\n“Permanent residents, including ethnic Koreans born in Japan, will be exempt from the law, along with state guests and diplomats.”<\/em>
\nhttp:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20071004\/wl_afp\/japanimmigrationterrorism_071004070723<\/a><\/p>\n

“Permanent residents will be exempt from the law, along with state guests and diplomats.”<\/em>
\nhttp:\/\/story.malaysiasun.com\/index.php\/ct\/9\/cid\/b8de8e630faf3631\/id\/287938\/cs\/1\/<\/a><\/p>\n

“Japanese permanent residency certificate holders, people under the age of 16, and guests of the country’s government chief administrators will not subject to the new measure, Sasaki [Seiko, head of Japan’s immigration agency’s intelligence management department], said.”<\/em>
\nhttp:\/\/www.taiwanheadlines.gov.tw\/ct.asp?xItem=89606&CtNode=39<\/a>
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\nSimilar misportrayals of the law have appeared in the Japan Times, Iran TV, Kyodo, and other news agencies.<\/p>\n

Sloppy, lazy journalism and interpretation, if not some careless statements by government officials. As reported on Debito.org as far back as last June<\/a> (and the information has not changed as of this morning), the new Immigration procedures, according to the Japanese Government, apply to (English original):<\/p>\n

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\n1. Persons under the age of 16
\n2. Special status permanent residents
\n3. Those performing actions which would be performed [sic] by those with a status of residence, \u201cdiplomat\u201d or \u201cofficial government business\u201d
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\nhttp:\/\/nettv.gov-online.go.jp\/prg\/prg1203.html<\/a><\/p>\n

“Special status permanent residents” (tokubetsu eijuusha) mean the Zainichi generational \u201cforeigners\u201d. This means regular-status permanent-resident immigrants (ippan eijuusha) or “long-term foreign residents” (teijuusha) are NOT exempt. They will be fingerprinted.<\/p>\n

This means you if you’re not a citizen, a Zainichi, or naturalized. Every time you enter the country. Don’t comply, you don’t get in. Be advised.<\/p>\n

I’ll have some advice on what you can do about this in a later post today, and some feedback I’ve received in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n

Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some recent news articles and foreign government translations of Japanese announcements indicate that “long-term” or Permanent Residents will NOT be fingerprinted at the border from November 20, as per newly-promulgated anti-terrorism laws. This is incorrect. Yes they will, according to the MOJ even as of this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese-government","category-media","category-problematic-foreign-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","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=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}