Dangerous FG-run Enterprise Busted

[Russell]

The remorseless Geisha

Is she the one that said she didn't need to practice her geisha flute because she was good enough already?

She probably demonstrated her Geisha performance for the NZ judge, which is why she got the book thrown at her.

She should have played the Shakuhachi...

[kurogane]

Things that will get you deported in Japan:

http://www.turning-japanese.info/2012/0 ... anent.html

In short, if he is viewed as aiding and abetting prostitution, drugs, or illegal immigration, yes, he's toast.

If this is just a shutdown and a fine for running an illegal hotel, he probably won't be deported providing his own visa situation is on the up and up.

From your list:

working and receiving numeration for activities you're not permitted to do

So, unless he has PR (I say he doesn't, as a guess), he's gone. Perhaps it was part of employment agreements rather than a visa condition per se but I distinctly remember something about a general morals clause. At any rate, if they want to they probably won't have much trouble turfing him, though he probably doesn't really deserve it unless he fails to heed this wakeup call. It all seems rather exaggerated.

I wonder if his whiny parents have sent up the Debito Batshit Signal to call in The Crusader. Even Arudou would have to be a complete retard to touch this numpty scofflaw.

[havill]

From your list:

working and receiving numeration for activities you're not permitted to do

So, unless he has PR (I say he doesn't, as a guess), he's gone. Perhaps it was part of employment agreements rather than a visa condition per se but I distinctly remember something about a general morals clause. At any rate, if they want to they probably won't have much trouble turfing him, though he probably doesn't really deserve it unless he fails to heed this wakeup call. It all seems rather exaggerated.

In theory, yes, but I doubt it. Immigration cares, but not THAT much, if somebody crosses job categories. Example: let's say, somebody with an "Engineer" status visa who is laid off from his/her job and works in Eikaiwa in between jobs, which would technically be the "Specialist in Humanities" visa. They would probably look the other way (not that I'm recommending anybody do this).

Now, if this guy REALLY pissed off immigration, they may go all pedantic on him and enforce the "job category" class.

But what immigration REALLY cares about is people that don't have permission to work AT ALL working: students, etc.

That's why the new Residence Cards have that big blue box in the middle of them that say something very simple like "can work" or "cannot work", and the training and promotion materials they distributed to the public taught employers to "before you hire a foreigner, look at that card and check that blue box."

[Samurai_Jerk]

Can I assume that "numeration" is supposed to be remuneration?

[havill]

Can I assume that "numeration" is supposed to be remuneration?

Thank you, yes! Fixed.

[kurogane]

Hey Havill,

Yeah, fair enough eh!? JFTR, I don't hope he's deported but I will snigger if he is.

Now, if this guy REALLY pissed off immigration, they may go all pedantic on him and enforce the "job category" class."

Well, judging by his decision to ignore 10 warnings from the town hall he does possess certain talents in that regard. Judging by his ridiculous parent posting on Gaijinnot, it runs in the family. Apparently they're "going to get them for that" for posting the news video of his arrest, which would suggest some rather impaired judgement and a healthy dose of delusional entitlement.

Anyways, just out of curiosity, have you never come across or heard of this Public Morals Clause I mentioned above???? I am just curious if it is visa related or a condition of the employment contracts I signed. It struck me as a sort of Get Out Of Jail Free card in the event of a visa holder or employee turning out to be a lowlife. My supervisors used to get a fair bit of mileage out of it as joke material. Not that I ever did anything to test its applicability.

[kurogane]

This just in:

http://japanchecker.com/forums/topic/share-house-scam/#post-533

Apparently he goes by Chris Wood, not James, and the link above provides quite a rounded summary of his character. He runs another scam house in Koto-ku. It would be nice if the authorities hear about that one as well, as I doubt his disclosure has been, shall we say, full and forthright.

It would be nice if he makes it home for Christmas, if not sooner.

[Yokohammer]

If he's been ignoring warnings and screwing people over then he deserves whatever he gets.

I initially thought it was just an innocent enterprise that the police were making an example of, but now that more info is in it looks as though the guy might be a bit of a scumbag.

In that case ... tough.

[Russell]

Yep, looks like the guy is toast.

[kurogane]

　　
I initially thought it was just an innocent enterprise that the police were making an example of, but now that more info is in it looks as though the guy might be a bit of a scumbag.　

Well, allowing for a usual level of anti-regulatory sentiment amongst Us Here, I getcha, but no unlicensed enterprise is innocent, and ignoring 10 warnings makes him at least criminally stupid. That tale of woe on that provided link makes him look simply criminal. If only half of her tale is true he's a genuine slumlord, and a bit of a mental case from the looks of it. His excuse that the Adachi-ku house was a share house not an inn was funny enough, but he was also telling his Koto-ku house tenants to say it wasn't a share house and they were friends staying at his place. Who tells their own tenants not to talk to the neighbours and to lie about their rental arrangements, and who uses 2 mutually contradictory excuses to try and scam the authorities? I wonder if he's just a retard or actually a bit nuts.

[yanpa]

He strikes me as the kind of person who, while not being technically bonkers per-se, has grown up in an environment somewhat cocooned from reality that most of us inhabit most of the time, and doesn't get that the "rules" somehow apply to them. The dork who lasted 2.5 days in my previous themepark was a similar basket case.

[Coligny]

Corporate sociopath, had his family been rich enough to put him on Yvi league he would have made Enron level quality CEO. Instead he have to fullfill his greed with low level scumlordism...

Might be a bit different from self entitled boomers. Seems to know all too well the rules, where and how to bend them to be put in the "rules don't apply to mee" basket. Same as Anarchists don't have a membership card...

[GomiGirl]

This just in:

http://japanchecker.com/forums/topic/share-house-scam/#post-533

Apparently he goes by Chris Wood, not James, and the link above provides quite a rounded summary of his character. He runs another scam house in Koto-ku. It would be nice if the authorities hear about that one as well, as I doubt his disclosure has been, shall we say, full and forthright.

It would be nice if he makes it home for Christmas, if not sooner.

Good find. So it seems he was a complete douche. But the only thing that is odd is that the girl said he was American. She is Danish so not sure if she could mix this up.

But the parent posting on Gaijinnot was quite a prize as well - "We will make them (the police) pay for allowing the arrest to be on TV."

Havill - I think you need to add a new category to your Gaijin Grifter files. Ripping off other foreigners is pretty low.

[Russell]

And it suddenly dawns on me why the authorities don't want this guy to be around during the Olympics...

[yanpa]

Ripping off other foreigners is pretty low.

Worse than ripping off the local populace?

[Wage Slave]

Ripping off other foreigners is pretty low.

Worse than ripping off the local populace?

Not really. But there is a special space in hell for those who prey on the vulnerable I reckon.

[GomiGirl]

Ripping off other foreigners is pretty low.

Worse than ripping off the local populace?

Not really. But there is a special space in hell for those who prey on the vulnerable I reckon.

Yes vulnerable was the word I was missing. Forgive me but I was in a rush this morning and my response was less than my usual erudite offerings.

Seems that this guy was filling his flop houses with students and FOB folks from non English speaking countries on most likely questionable visa statuses themselves. Not cool.


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[havill]

Reading the Nikkei article on him (did a quick and dirty translation on gaijinnot.com), it claims he's "unemployed", so yeah, they're probably going to nab him on a visa violation if they don't get him on anything else.

[wagyl]

Unemployed? I suppose in the sense of "not employed by others" so the rest of us running our own businesses are unemployed, too.

British Top model of Tokyo collection and a designer

no less.

That of course doesn't change the visa violation issue, but adds to the truth stretching he seems to have done so far.

[havill]

Gaijin Grifter, File 20140528a, dox from self-published and self-promoted online public sources:

http://tokyoplaces.com/
cell # and email listed too heh
(his personal emails and phones are there too, but I'm not going to publish them here)

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https://twitter.com/chrisintokyo1
looks like his japanese sucks

https://twitter.com/interpartie

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from 2011
"happy for my student http://twitpic.com/4pmsvx"
i guess he was on a english teacher visa
but later in 2011 he started his own business
which might be his slum lord thing?

got a bunch of domains listed under his name of place-holder names like Yukiko Oguchi aka CY World:
elm-english.com etc

though they all appear to be busted

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he makes $20k - $30k
http://www.speeddate.com/personals-in-s ... tokyo.html

https://www.facebook.com/Chrisintokyo
i guess hes a model?
birthday on may 12? sucks to be arrested after that

may 7 1986
working as model since 1998
but got a degree in compsci? heh
hard to believe he has a CS degree with how crappy his websites are

his parents do stuff with race horses
nigel and karen wood

the money tweet, april 27th:

今日 すらいい！！！すごいい たいへん。 the police raided my house and took my pc and documents

LOL

Listed on hotels.com
http://www.hotels.com/ho458030/tokyo-pl ... kyo-japan/
it's on other hotel sites as well.

So he's lying when he claimed to police that what he was running was "not a hotel, it was a sharehouse."

He's calling adachi Asakusa
Bastard

And finally, I attach you this pic from his facebook for your consideration.


He's calling adachi Asakusa
Bastard

[wagyl]

From..

Listed on hotels.com
http://www.hotels.com/ho458030/tokyo-pl ... kyo-japan/

I think we are all overlooking the bigger crime here:

flophouse.jpg

He has chairs with castor wheels on the tatami mats. Philistine!

[yanpa]

Bed on the mats too. How un-Japanese!

His command of written English is somewhat in need of improvement.

[Coligny]

From..

Listed on hotels.com
http://www.hotels.com/ho458030/tokyo-pl ... kyo-japan/

I think we are all overlooking the bigger crime here:

flophouse.jpg

He has chairs with castor wheels on the tatami mats. Philistine!

I so hate it when I agree with youz...

[wagyl]

I'm not into extending this out to the parents, after all sins of the sons, as it were, but I felt that while "do stuff with racehorses" sounds dodgy, running a charity for abandoned racehorses is a little better. If only they didn't also run a bed and breakfast at the registered address of the charity........



Good God I have to stop looking!
They are a 15 minute drive from Gretna Green and offer a wedding limousine service... I suppose it is for those who want to elope olde style in style.

[havill]

Unemployed? I suppose in the sense of "not employed by others" so the rest of us running our own businesses are unemployed, too.

British Top model of Tokyo collection and a designer

no less.

That of course doesn't change the visa violation issue, but adds to the truth stretching he seems to have done so far.

I believe, though I may be mistaken, that J news sources call you 無職 aka unemployed when you're neither an employee nor you have a legal registered business with you as the proprietor etc listed in your name. No?

[yanpa]

Unemployed? I suppose in the sense of "not employed by others" so the rest of us running our own businesses are unemployed, too.

British Top model of Tokyo collection and a designer

no less.

That of course doesn't change the visa violation issue, but adds to the truth stretching he seems to have done so far.

I believe, though I may be mistaken, that J news sources call you 無職 aka unemployed when you're neither an employee nor you have a legal registered business with you as the proprietor etc listed in your name. No?

無職 seems to be a catch-all for anyone who doesn't seem to be in gainful employment, whether retired, drawing unemployment benefits, or just having your hand in numerous dodgy schemes.

Mind you, if I were arrested right now they'd probably rate me as 無職 as despite being employed I don't have any obvious status in the system here.

[wagyl]

Unemployed? I suppose in the sense of "not employed by others" so the rest of us running our own businesses are unemployed, too.

British Top model of Tokyo collection and a designer

no less.

That of course doesn't change the visa violation issue, but adds to the truth stretching he seems to have done so far.

I believe, though I may be mistaken, that J news sources call you 無職 aka unemployed when you're neither an employee nor you have a legal registered business with you as the proprietor etc listed in your name. No?

Surely it is not illegal to be a sole proprietor without incorporating, if that is what you mean by "legal registered business." But anyway, but I don't know whether they go to the effort to check that. My feeling is that they cut the snark a little by leaving out the 自称 in 無職. Otherwise, they might well have brought up "staging and promoting events" as that does add to the snark. They will be largely repeating whatever it is the police are unilaterally telling them at this stage, so maybe the police are not inclined to explore that aspect yet.

[havill]

Well, as his "speed dating" profile says "some college", I guess that means no degree, no humanities visa.

Which makes me wonder how he bootstrapped himself teaching English and modeling. UK working holiday visa? Not for eight years though.

Oh wait. I must be new here.

Yeah, he's getting the Gaijin Gulag and a one way ticket to Heathrow.

[matsuki]

Says he has a wife in the Danish woman's complaints so spousal visa?

[wagyl]

Says he has a wife in the Danish woman's complaints so spousal visa?

He speeddates as a single in Shibuya. Wife may be "wife," speeddate may be another truth stretch. Who knows, but my feeling is whatever the situation he might not have paperwork up to scratch.

The information we put out about ourselves is our biggest danger. Old school Stasi operatives would be salivating in this day and age.