New Gaijin Card Design

[Mulboyne]

The Asahi (Japanese only) reports that the Ministry of Justice will introduce a new style gaijin card from next month. The new card will incorporate anti-counterfeiting technology in the form of holograms and special inks. I like the way the sample is for Jennifer Yoko Chiyoda from Seattle.

FG Thread: Fake Fucked Gaijin Card

[Mulboyne]

Asahi article now in English

[dimwit]

Just got my renewed Gaijin card last week and it looks like it has all the holographs already.

[Mulboyne]

Asahi: Fakes of new ID card already for sale

Fake gaijin cards that are sophisticated enough to fool police are already on the market, just four months after the real certificates of alien registration were redesigned to outfox forgers, the Justice Ministry announced. Three Chinese nationals were arrested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department in September on suspicion of having made forgeries of printed official documents. Police say they were selling their top-notch copies for 20,000 yen each...more...

Policy change at the Asahi. "Alien Registration Cards" seems now to be translated as "Gaijin Cards".