{"id":6443,"date":"2010-04-09T09:38:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T00:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6443"},"modified":"2010-04-09T17:31:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T08:31:14","slug":"mhlw-clamps-down-on-nj-spongers-of-system-claiming-overseas-kids-what-spongers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6443","title":{"rendered":"MHLW clamps down on NJ spongers of system claiming overseas kids. What spongers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0 In mid-March we had a storm in a teacup about DPJ policy re child allowances: \u00a0If NJ also qualified for child support, politicians argued, some hypothetical Arab prince in Japan would claim all 50 of his kids back in Saudi Arabia.\u00a0\u00a0Well, thanks to that storm, we have the Health Ministry creating policy within weeks to prevent NJ from potentially sponging off the system. \u00a0As submitter JK notes, “What follows is article on why \u539a\u751f\u52b4\u50cd\u7701 feels the need to clamp down on those untrustworthy foreigners; never mind about the lack of data.”<\/p>\n

Gov’t gets tough on allowances for foreigners who claim to have children in home countries<\/strong>
\n http:\/\/mdn.mainichi.jp\/mdnnews\/news\/20100407p2a00m0na008000c.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n http:\/\/mainichi.jp\/life\/edu\/child\/archive\/news\/2010\/04\/20100407ddm002010042000c.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Well, that’s proactive policymaking in Japan. \u00a0In the same way that anti-terrorism policy that targets foreigners only was proactive (although it took a few years to draft and enact<\/a>). \u00a0Here, the bureaucrats could just do it with a few penstrokes and call it a “clarification”, without having to go through the pesky political process.<\/p>\n

But the assumption is, once again, that a) foreigners are untrustworthy and need extra background checks, and b) any policy that might do something nice for the Japanese public needs to be carefully considered by viewing it through the “foreigner prism”, for who knows what those people might do to take advantage of our rich system? \u00a0“What-if” panicky hypotheticals without any data win the debate and govern policymaking towards NJ again.<\/p>\n

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Gov’t gets tough on allowances for foreigners who claim to have children in home countries<\/strong>
\n(Mainichi Japan) April 7, 2010<\/p>\n

The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has tightened conditions for paying child-care allowances to foreigners who reside in Japan and claim to have children in their home countries, ministry officials said.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The move is aimed at preventing foreign residents from illicitly receiving expensive allowances by falsely adopting children in their home countries or using other tricks to deceive Japanese authorities. The ministry has notified local governments across the country of its decision.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Before providing child-care allowances, local governments are required by the ministry to confirm that such recipients meet their children in their home countries at least twice a year by checking their passports, and make sure that they send money to their children at least once every four months.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The ministry took the measure out of fear that a large number of foreigners would falsely adopt children in their home countries for the sole purpose of illegally receiving child-care allowances in Japan.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The number of foreign residents’ children who receive child allowances while living in their home countries remains unclear, according to the ministry.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Some local governments have expressed concern that the measure would increase their workload.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Original Japanese story<\/p>\n

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In mid-March we had a storm in a teacup about DPJ policy re child allowances: If NJ also qualified for child support, politicians argued, some hypothetical Arab prince in Japan would claim all 50 of his kids back in Saudi Arabia. Well, thanks to that storm, we have the Health Ministry creating policy within weeks to prevent NJ from potentially sponging off the system. As submitter JK notes, “What follows is article on why \u539a\u751f\u52b4\u50cd\u7701 feels the need to clamp down on those untrustworthy foreigners; never mind about the lack of data.”<\/p>\n

Well, that’s proactive policymaking in Japan. In the same way that anti-terrorism policy that targets foreigners only was proactive (although it took a few years to draft and enact). Here, the bureaucrats could just do it with a few penstrokes and call it a “clarification”, without having to go through the pesky political process.<\/p>\n

But the assumption is, once again, that a) foreigners are untrustworthy and need extra background checks, and b) any policy that might do something nice for the Japanese public needs to be carefully considered by viewing it through the “foreigner prism”, for who knows what those people might do to take advantage of our rich system? “What-if” panicky hypotheticals without any data win the debate and govern policymaking towards NJ again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,33,4,14,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-social-science","category-fingerprinting-nj","category-japanese-government","category-japanese-politics","category-problematic-foreign-treatment","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6443","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=6443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}