Japan to adopt new register system for foreigners

[Tsuru]

I think the IC chip in my new card is going to accidentally be hit with a balpeen hammer.

A microwave also does wonders and as a bonus you can't see the damage with the naked eye if you do it right. Happy frying!

[wuchan]

A microwave also does wonders and as a bonus you can't see the damage with the naked eye if you do it right. Happy frying!

one word: magnet.

[FG Lurker]

A microwave also does wonders and as a bonus you can't see the damage with the naked eye if you do it right. Happy frying!

The problem is that if you do it "wrong" it tends to set the card on fire. "Oops!"

[FG Lurker]

one word: magnet.

A magnet will have absolutely no affect on an IC chip.

[Ketou]

one word: magnet.

A magnet would only disable the chip for the duration it was in the field.
Needs an electrical surge or physical damage to disable it permanently.

[Tsuru]

The problem is that if you do it "wrong" it tends to set the card on fire. "Oops!"

So?

[FG Lurker]

[quote="Tsuru"]So?

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Easy enough to explain once as, "I lost my card."

Not so easy when the same thing happens 2 days later.

[james]

well those boneheads at the local town office gave me my new gaijin card, and as i was half expecting, they went ahead and put my passport number on it. i knew they would do this even after my telling them not to.

so now i'm going back with lurker's kindly provided image and i'm looking for the relevant docs online.

edit: in japanese

[osopolar]

http://www.immi-moj.go.jp/newimmiact_1/en/index.html

[Coligny]

Start of a new residence management system...

I'm all for it, when do they come to clean up the place ? I can't see the floor anymore in my bedroom...

[Mock Cockpit]

http://www.immi-moj.go.jp/newimmiact_1/en/index.html

From the link]Grounds for deportation

You have committed an act of forgery or alteration of your residence card.[/QUOTE]
It's not my fault the card got run over seventeen times. "Clumsy bastard" should not be grounds for deportation.

[American Oyaji]

You know Japan is a country that doesn't know what it wants. One ministry claims it WANTS more foreigners to visit Japan while another ministry mistrusts them so much that it takes their fingerprints and pictures on entering the country and then subjects them to this immigration procedure. I like the old system. It felt more...humane.

[wuchan]

[Enuff Stuff]

Just heard about this today and at first thought I had wasted time and money on a new reentry permit this summer, but it appears otherwise. The way I read it, if you have permanent residency and plan to return more than 365 days after your departure, you will still need a reentry permit (whose validity is being extended from 3 to 5 years).

Is that the way you read it?

[Mock Cockpit]

Just heard about this today and at first thought I had wasted time and money on a new reentry permit this summer, but it appears otherwise. The way I read it, if you have permanent residency and plan to return more than 365 days after your departure, you will still need a reentry permit (whose validity is being extended from 3 to 5 years).

Is that the way you read it?

Yeah, that's what I understand.

[IparryU]

Just heard about this today and at first thought I had wasted time and money on a new reentry permit this summer, but it appears otherwise. The way I read it, if you have permanent residency and plan to return more than 365 days after your departure, you will still need a reentry permit (whose validity is being extended from 3 to 5 years).

Is that the way you read it?

the way i read it is that all FGs now have to go to FG land to get their services done and cand do it with the non-FGs...

startin to sound like america after slavery...

[Greji]

startin to sound like america after slavery...

Whadda ya mean? Slavery's over? Damn, I was just going to put in a bid on Iraira.....

[Coligny]

Whadda ya mean? Slavery's over? Damn, I was just going to put in a bid on Iraira.....

Please, do go on, seks slaves are still totally ok...

[IparryU]

Please, do go on, seks slaves are still totally ok...

know where to find non-goats? need a change

[matsuki]

So if "We Japanese" get their name on the card in janji/hiragana w/ furigana, how are they going to handle FG names and registered alias? Zainichi? If it's the same as they do now (with notes on the back) I guess it won't be an issue, but if not, it could cause a ton of problems for FG.

[wagyl]

[matsuki]

According to the Q&A here,

which is a pain because the gaijin card is the only document which provides a link between the katakana I use in registering my car, my phone etc. and the Latin alphabet name I was born with. I can foresee being prevented from cancelling my phone contract because my zairyu card does not state the name I registered my phone under.

Exactly what I'm worried about ...but I assume "nickname" means just that, not legal alias....otherwise there is gonna be Zainichi riots

In other fun and games,

I haven't checked the Japanese text, but I hope that is as deliciously ambiguous in the original. Honey, if you don't put out, I'm reporting you to Immigration.

Bwahahahaha! Activities as a spouse? Can't wait to see the news stories when that gets definition comes into question or the requirement gets abused.

[wagyl]

[IparryU]

I haven't checked the Japanese text, but I hope that is as deliciously ambiguous in the original. Honey, if you don't put out, I'm reporting you to Immigration.

well... guess what I am going to do tonight?

[Coligny]

Put a maid uniform and do the dishes ?

[IparryU]

Put a maid uniform and do the dishes ?

noted...

[matsuki]

[imlost]

which is a pain because the gaijin card is the only document which provides a link between the katakana I use in registering my car, my phone etc. and the Latin alphabet name I was born with. I can foresee being prevented from cancelling my phone contract because my zairyu card does not state the name I registered my phone under.

Well they have the writable area on the back of the card which is mostly for changing addresses but below that maybe they can write the katakana name down there?

But there is plenty of space to stick the Katakana under the name looking at the example card. Without it I know what will happen is different places will transliterate your name differently and you'll end up with several Katakana names.

Also how long before it will take Banks or other places to catch up with the new cards when they ask for your Gaijin Card? You hand over the Residents Card and they refuse you for handing over the wrong type of card.

[wagyl]

The link is only in Japanese, but as part of the new system we also get on the Juminhyo and Jukinet, where legal aliases can be recorded.

[imlost]

The link is only in Japanese, but as part of the new system we also get on the Juminhyo and Jukinet, where legal aliases can be recorded.

Well that will solve the issue but now have to pay 600 yen to the ward office to get a copy of your certificate like we have to do with the inkanshomeisho as they will only accept a one printed in the last 30 days or so as your name could change anytime.