Conscientious Chinese Student Not Deported For Hostess Work

[Mulboyne]

Kyodo via Japan Today: Court allows Chinese student to stay in Japan in hostess job case
A Chinese female university student won a lawsuit Thursday in which she sought annulment of a state order to deport her for working as a nightclub hostess without a valid work permit. The Hiroshima District Court rejected the state's claim that the 31-year-old woman earned more from extracurricular activities than the necessary amount of money required by her visa status to live in Japan as a student. The woman filed the lawsuit against the deportation order issued in September 2006, claiming her job has not interfered with her university studies. Judge Yoshinari Hashimoto said, "The woman was studying as much as average university students, if not more. Education, separate from her night job, was valuable for her."

This runs against the trend of recent decisions in such cases and seems quite enlightened. You would assume that her university offered some support in court.

[Greji]

Kyodo via Japan Today: Court allows Chinese student to stay in Japan in hostess job case
This runs against the trend of recent decisions in such cases and seems quite enlightened. You would assume that her university offered some support in court.

Maybe she was doing the Dean?

[Gilligan]

Judge Yoshinari Hashimoto said, "The woman was studying as much as average university students, if not more."

That's not a difficult standard to achieve in this country.

[kusai Jijii]

That's not a difficult standard to achieve in this country.

I think, by virtue of actually studying at all, she is in the top 1 percentile of all J-college 'students'.