{"id":792,"date":"2007-11-29T16:40:52","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T07:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=792"},"modified":"2008-04-23T12:34:55","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T03:34:55","slug":"irony-japan-post-office-issuing-yokoso-japan-stamps-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=792","title":{"rendered":"Irony: Japan Post Office issuing “YOKOSO JAPAN” stamps January"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Blog. Here’s your daily hohoemi–with irony. Courtesy of HG:<\/p>\n

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\nHey Debito, Japanese Post is planning 10 commemorative stamps for Jan. 23, 2008 to promote the YOKOSO JAPAN campaign.<\/b><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.post.japanpost.jp\/kitte_hagaki\/stamp\/tokusyu\/2007\/h190123_t.html<\/a><\/p>\n

(Nothing on the stamps in English, of course. And nothing on the official YOKOSO JAPAN Blogs about the new Fingerprinting rules<\/a>, of course.)<\/p>\n

10 million foreign tourists by 2010?<\/a> Say WHAT?<\/p>\n

So far, less stringent measures (Green Card holders are exempt) in the US have led to a drop totalling 6 million tourists on a yearly basis since introduction of the FP requirement.<\/a> Despite an ever weaker dollar (shall we now call it “North American Peso”?? *ggg*).<\/p>\n

BTW, face value of the stamps is 80 yen each – domestic first class postage. So the foreign tourists are mainly left out of this… ;-).
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Amazing. Stamps for tourists that tourists can’t even use to send a letter home? Provided the tourists want to come here anyway and be treated like terrorists and criminals. Makes you wonder if policymakers ever think things through. Debito<\/p>\n

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Here’s your daily laugh: Japan Post Office is issuing new YOKOSO JAPAN stamps next January. Not only does this presume the tourists are going to want to come here to be treated like terrorists and criminals, but also the stamps don’t even amount to overseas postage: 80 yen domestic only!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fingerprinting-nj","category-ironies-hypocrisies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","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=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}