Study Japanese visas

[Taro Toporific]

This sounds like the Japanese school I used to attend which had three classrooms with 20 desks each and yet 4,000+ "students" enrolled.
School helped 8000 enter Japan illegally
March 14 - Daily Yomiuri
A company executive who runs a Japanese language school in Tokyo helped about 8,000 Chinese people enter Japan illegally over an eight-year period by producing fake certificates for use in their visa applications....

[cstaylor]

Would that make him an accessory to any crimes they commit in Japan?

[Frost]

I doubt it...but either way he going to jail for a bit.

[Taro Toporific]

I doubt it...but either way he going to jail for a bit.

Actually not. My Japanese school owner was busted and he returned to business in less than 6 months. The guy will "confess" to all 8,000 charges and just pay fines.

The real question is where the hell did they find 8,000 Japanese guarantors for those 8,000 study visas?

[AssKissinger]

I doubt it...but either way he going to jail for a bit.

Actually not. My Japanese school owner was busted and he returned to business in less than 6 months. The guy will "confess" to all 8,000 charges and just pay fines.

The real question is where the hell did they find 8,000 Japanese guarantors for those 8,000 study visas?

Probably at a hanko shop.

[Taro Toporific]

The real question is where the hell did they find 8,000 Japanese guarantors for those 8,000 study visas?

Probably at a hanko shop.

The student-visa guarantor also needs a "Residence Certificate" so maybe the seal was easy....



Then again, finding guarantors is easy for the yakuza, who often use loan shark victems as "straw men."

[Taro Toporific]

I doubt it...but either way he going to jail for a bit.

The real question is where the hell did they find 8,000 Japanese guarantors for those 8,000 study visas?

Probably at a hanko shop.

I just stumbled across this story about hanko preliterate foolishness.

High-tech security gadgets yet to seal fate of Japan's hanko tradition
AFP- Technology - March 15
TOKYO (AFP) - Old habits die hard. The use of carved personal seals in Japan has survived technological leaps which could have rendered them obselete despite their widely acknowledged vulnerability to fraud.
The culture of the hanko (personal seal) is even strong among those who are involved in development of the very biometrics technology which one day is bound to replace it as a method of identifing people. ...

Seals are easy to steal and copy, however, making it convenient for criminals to forge documents.
Bank accounts are particularly exposed to risk because deposited money can be withdrawn with just a personal seal and a bank account book for identification.

In the year to March 2003, some 4.2 billion yen (37.9 million dollars) was stolen from Japanese banks in 1,294 reported cases of theft involving stolen account books and personal seals, according to the Japanese Bankers Association.