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Sweetsee
Joined: 11 Jun 2004
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Hi Keith how goes it,
Must be the alien identification card that foreigners are required by law to carry. I like your take on it. If you can manage to completely avoid eye contact with them, usually does the trick.
Enjoy,
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canuck
Joined: 11 May 2003
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Location: Japan
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| Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 8:41 am Post subject: |
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| Keith_Alan_W wrote: |
This is probably a stupid question, but what "card" are the cops asking for?
Usually when I've had to deal with cops while walking, I've first pretended to not have noticed them or that they were interested in talking to me, and if they do keep coming, I shew them away as if they were an annoying fly or beggar. If this doesn't work, I act extremely disinterested in them and what there saying by glancing around and asking them to repeat their questions. |
They might have been interested in your 84,000 yen English lessons. |
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angrysoba
Joined: 20 Jan 2006
Posts: 446
Location: Kansai, Japan
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| Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 9:09 am Post subject: |
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| Keith_Alan_W wrote: |
This is probably a stupid question, but what "card" are the cops asking for?
Usually when I've had to deal with cops while walking, I've first pretended to not have noticed them or that they were interested in talking to me, and if they do keep coming, I shew them away as if they were an annoying fly or beggar. If this doesn't work, I act extremely disinterested in them and what there saying by glancing around and asking them to repeat their questions.
Works most of the time. |
Well, as a poster said above, you are required to carry an alien registration card with you at all times unless you are carrying your passport which is also acceptable. As you are currently not considered a resident of Japan, you won't be able to obtain an alien registration card. You should carry your passport with you.
I have only ever been asked to show my 'gaijin' card once by the police in all the years I have been here. In Japan I don't "usually...deal with cops" as apparently you do, but if I did I wouldn't act suspiciously by shewing them away or like I was the village idiot by repeating everything they say or acting extremely disinterested (which means "unbiased" by the way - perhaps you meant "uninterested") in them. If you don't have ID on you and they find out you've been working here illegally it wouldn't be too good for you.
Jail and deportation wouldn't be a nice way to end your holiday in Japan. |
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sallycat
Joined: 11 Mar 2006
Posts: 303
Location: behind you. BOO!
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In case that list of women's organizations does not turn out to be too helpful, several of the staff of the foreign teacher unions are women who deal with sexual harassment cases and the like. And they speak English and Japanese. Some are non-Japanese who are teachers like yourselves.
Here are their websites...
For Tokyo area
http://www.nambufwc.org
For Osaka area
http://www.generalunion.org
For Fukuoka area
http://fukuoka.generalunion.org |
sorry, i should clarify. the list of womens organisations was there because i remembered that jazz had asked, in another thread, for any info anyone had on how to contact womens groups in japan. |
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seanmcginty
Joined: 27 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Keith_Alan_W wrote: |
This is probably a stupid question, but what "card" are the cops asking for?
Usually when I've had to deal with cops while walking, I've first pretended to not have noticed them or that they were interested in talking to me, and if they do keep coming, I shew them away as if they were an annoying fly or beggar. If this doesn't work, I act extremely disinterested in them and what there saying by glancing around and asking them to repeat their questions.
Works most of the time. |
LMAO. This is funny. You haven't been in Japan long enough to even know what an alien registration card (ie the basic document every foreigner living in Japan needs) is, yet you've already had enough run-ins with the police to have developed a standard way of dealing with them?
In five years in Japan the only run in with the cops I had was about 6 months after I arrived. I got pulled over by a motorcycle cop while I was riding my bike. I was pretty worried, not sure what I had done wrong, but when the cop took off his helmet I recognized him as a student from my school who had just pulled me over to say hi.
I guess I was lucky. |
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Keith_Alan_W
Joined: 26 Mar 2006
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seanmcginty:
No run-ins with the cops in Japan. This is how I deal with cops in general, especially Czech policeman. Those guys ask questions like "You smoke Marijuana, right?" Cops in China were always wanting to invite me home for dinner. Cops in Mexico always wanted to sell me hookers and drugs. Cops in Canada have been assholes most of the time. Cops in Japan have been pretty good sources of tourist info.
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sallycat
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Location: behind you. BOO!
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| Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 5:21 am Post subject: |
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| i look to you for effective methods for dealing with cops. |
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Keith_Alan_W
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| Thanks. I feel special. |
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gaijinalways
Joined: 29 Nov 2005
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I would agree. The police response to stalking has been criticized, but ladies, it does go both ways.
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| yeah i know it goes both ways. what has that got to do with anything? (or to put it another way, why is there a "but" in that sentence? |
My point was that all of the examples of stalking in the thread were about women being stalked. I was just reminding the female posters that males get stalked too (no meaning intended beyond that).
I still have to wonder as I feel the average 'gaijin' is much more likely to be stopped than a Japanese (from what I have seen, personally experienced, and heard/read about). Anyone disagree and have any examples? The main times I have seen Japanese stopped is when they were;
illegally parked (car, motorcycle, bicycle)
speeding (car or motorcycle)
Of course, there was that weird story from Saitama, about a Japanese woman brought to the police station because she was carrying an envelope with Porteguese writing on it and she 'didn't look Japanese'
http://www.gaijinpot.com/bb/showthread.php?t=19960
Act Japanese, well...  ? |
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