Immigration Detains Chinese Students For Working Too Hard

[Mulboyne]

[floatl][/floatl]Asahi: Chinese students sue immigration bureau over crackdown
Four Chinese students have sued the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau for attempting to detain them during a crackdown on illegal workers at an esthetic salon chain. Tokyo immigration bureau officials said they want to detain the four students because they were neglecting their studies and spending most of their time trying to make money. But the students argue their visas allow them to work to pay for their academic fees, and that their studies were never neglected. The lawsuit filed at the Tokyo District Court demands an injunction on the detention order...The Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Law stipulates that foreign students can be subject to forced displacement and detention when they are clearly found engaged exclusively in activities for monetary rewards...The bureau officials noted that the students' wages, which ranged from 2,000 yen to 3,000 yen an hour, were higher than the pay earned at other part-time jobs..."I never skipped any classes at my university for my part-time job," a 29-year-old female junior at a private university in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward said. "Until the end of my sophomore year, I had three Bs, but got As for the rest of my classes."...more...

[otakuden]

"The bureau officials noted that the students' wages, which ranged from 2,000 yen to 3,000 yen ($1,712 to $2,568 ) an hour, were higher than the pay earned at other part-time jobs."

well shucks. i want their job too, since the pay is so damn good in american dollar
durn those pesky commas/decimal points

[amdg]

" the students' wages, which ranged from 2,000 yen to 3,000 yen ($1,712 to $2,568 ) an hour,

Sheeet, where do I sign up for that conversion rate...

[Blah Pete]

"The bureau officials noted that the students' wages, which ranged from 2,000 yen to 3,000 yen ($1,712 to $2,568 ) an hour, were higher than the pay earned at other part-time jobs."

well shucks. i want their job too, since the pay is so damn good in american dollar
durn those pesky commas/decimal points

I sure hope that you don't work in a bank.

[nullpointer]

I sure hope that you don't work in a bank.

Those amounts are as mentioned in the original article.

[blackcat]

looks like some immigration officers were tired of paying for hand jobs...might as well arrest them for no reason, then we can rape them in detention with all the other "past used date" by hookers and human traffic victims that get treated that way.

then deport them.

[Mulboyne]

Sometimes you just can't get the education:

MDN: Kagawa University educators punished for giving credits without classes

...University officials learned of the educators' shenanigans after a Chinese postgraduate student who complained of discrimination, saying that they had not been able to take the classes they wanted to. University officials said that one of the punished professors from the fine arts faculty had taken his students out to an udon restaurant to eat instead of having a class, or delayed the start of lessons because he was cooking pasta in his office. The professor also sent his students to undergraduate classes, but gave them credits for postgraduate courses. At least six students who took part in his course from 2001 to 2004 were affected. The professor has admitted allowing students to get grades even though they had not attended class. "I thought it would allow them to concentrate their efforts on their specialty," he said. He is also accused of teaching this method to colleagues, who appear to have used it.

[Greji]

Sometimes you just can't get the education:

MDN: Kagawa University educators punished for giving credits without classes

Where were all these good Profs when I was going to school. Then, even death wasn't even a sure-fire excuse for a class absence permission slip!