Japan Man Who Said 'Shit' at Airport Cop Allowed to Return
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/111479.htm
GJA Japanese son-in-law who uttered "shit" at an immigration officer nine months ago was allowed to return to Taiwan for five days to attend a funeral service for his father-in-law yesterday.
That return required the aid of a Kuomintang lawmaker to persuade the Ministry of the Interior to waive a five-year ban on Norino Sueda's entry to Taiwan.
Sueda arrived in Taipei from Tokyo in the evening.
Legislator Chang Suo-wen told a press conference the interior ministry shouldn't bar Sueda from attending the funeral scheduled for today just because he said "shit" when kept waiting for a long time at Taoyuan International Airport to clear the immigration check on September 30 last year.
Mrs. Sueda, whose father died in Touliu last month, told reporters she never thought her husband would be convicted of "insulting a public functionary" and sentenced to 30 days in prison.
The sentence was suspended for five years.
During those five years, Sueda could not visit Taiwan, the Taipei district court ruled.
"He apologized to the officer, and we thought we settled the dispute," Mrs. Sueda said. "In fact, our written apology was used as evidence him," she lamented.
"Shit" is Sueda's wonted way of expressing dissatisfaction or impatience, his Taiwanese-born wife said. "That's not an obscenity," she stressed...
