Mystery of the 32 "Japanese" Visitors to Belize

[Mulboyne]

7 News Belize: The Tough Questions
Yesterday evening, the Ministry Of Immigration sent out a release making the case that there wasn't anything seriously irregular about three charter flights that landed in Belize from Haiti with 32 supposedly Japanese visitors...First off, the release does not address the fact that the plane flew in from Port Au Prince Haiti...Second, the release makes nothing of the absolute oddness of 32 Japanese tourists flying in on a private charter jet - from earthquake ravaged Haiti to Belize. We note that the number of Japanese visitors to Belize every year is so fractional it is not even recorded under an individual heading in Tourism Board statistics - so to have received 32 in a three week span is anomalous, to say the least...Third, one of the so called procedural irregularities is that no record was made of where the Japanese visitors got their visas...[F]or context we note that getting into Belize with a Japanese passport is infinitely simpler than doing it with a Chinese passport. First off, the cost of a single Belizean visa to a Chinese passport holder is twelve thousand dollars - deterrence fees which are not levied on Japanese travelers...more...

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They all bought their tickets from a gaijin in Roppongi....

[Coligny]

Is it somekind of private joke between you guys or am i completely missing the point on how this news is important ?

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Is it somekind of private joke between you guys or am i completely missing the point on how this news is important ?

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[Mulboyne]

Is it somekind of private joke between you guys or am i completely missing the point on how this news is important ?

The case alone isn't important. I've just seen a number of reports suggesting Chinese are using fake Japanese passports around the world so I thought I'd keep a space if the trend picks up pace.

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The case alone isn't important. I've just seen a number of reports suggesting Chinese are using fake Japanese passports around the world so I thought I'd keep a space if the trend picks up pace.

I wonder if they'll start using them on visits to the Senkakus?

[Doctor Stop]

Remember that the North Korean elite, if you want to call them that, also have a history of using fake passports and have a certain love of Japan.

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But Kim Jong-nam reportedly fell out of favour in 2001 when he was caught trying to enter Japan on a fake Dominican Republic passport to visit Tokyo's Disney resort.

First off, the release does not address the fact that the plane flew in from Port Au Prince Haiti - it simply says that a private charter plane "out of the Dominican Republic" landed in Belize - which is misleading because the charter company is based in the Dominican Republic but the plane flew out of its neighboring country, Haiti.

[Buraku]

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