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Students pay price in visa crackdown

Hachiko

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17 Jan 2004
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When American students Angela Luna and Richard Nishizawa tried to board a plane bound for San Francisco in March, airport authorities threw them in a small holding cell and held them incommunicado for several days before banishing them from Japan for five years.

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Richard Nishizawa (left) and Angela Luna were banished from Japan for 5 years for overstaying their visas Michael Macor/SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE PHOTO

Luna and Nishizawa, who had studied Japanese for a year at Reitaku University, northeast of Tokyo, were not arrested for committing a serious crime. They had merely stayed in the country two weeks longer than their visas permitted.

"We had valid 5-year visas, so we didn't bother to look at our immigration stamps," Luna, 27, said. "The guards made me change my clothes because they had drawstrings. They thought I might use it as a weapon, or strangle someone. We were treated like criminals."

Japan Times
 
Sophisticated said:
Welcome to Japan. Actually there is no good police in Japan. Oppositely, japanese yakuzas are nice guys.

Smear 240,000+ individuals indiscriminately with a single dismissive sentence. Nice.

And praise extortionists, rapists, thieves, murderers, con men, arsonists, etc. in the next sentence. Wonderful.

Pleased to make your acquaintance.
 
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