Samurai_Jerk wrote:Wage Slave wrote:Japanese Immigration officials ask to see my card but not anyone else. Everyone else wants to see a passport. As it happens I have a brand new passport this year so until I got a re-entry permit there was absolutely nothing in it relating to Japan.
It might not matter and certainly that is the view from the immigration people. You have an official and impressive looking ID card which no-one is going to question. I'm not so sure.
I've been asked to show my ZRC in other countries when returning to Japan. On my last trip abroad no one in Narita asked to see it though.
Perhaps other Asian countries are more familiar with the Japanese system and understand it better. I haven't travelled within Asia for many years now. All my trips are back to Europe and that might explain differing experience.