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TheSeventhSense
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I'm sorry, but a manga about students getting arrested for massaging people sounds hilarious.
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Tomibiki
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Dey takin der jerbs?!
Also, pretty sure most of Japan's adult entertainment industry is corrupt as hell and this is a fat load of hot air. Using manga as a scare tactic? Pretty sure people willing to sell their bodies already know they're going to have to thumb their nose at a law or two. |
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Fabe
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Yeah,but the manga make it look like the authorities are doing something about it. Which sometime is easier then actually doing something. |
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enurtsol
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It's ok if they're high school girls.
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configspace
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Because there really isn't any. I wonder how it would be to distribute subversive manga to counter such protectionist measures 
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Banken
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That's about the only way for a foreign exchange student to afford living in Japan.
Although I was thinking that the only restriction was that they had to fill out some paperwork and that the maximum working hours was 28 per week. But apparently you can't work in ANY entertainment job, including pachinko parlors or possibly not even karaoke places and game centers (arcades). |
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Nemo_N
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Oh noes, people providing services and receiving money in exchange.
The horror. |
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Chagen46
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It should be pretty obvious that this law basically exists to force foreigners out of Japan without actually coming off as "too" discriminatory. |
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Banken
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American immigration laws are even worse in some cases, FWIW. You can't even get a family visa without proof of income. BTW, that is only for STUDENT visas. The point of that law is that you're not supposed to do things besides what your visa is for. IE, a student should be studying, not giving happy endings in a massage parlor. For example, I have my work visa because I have mad Japanese skills, so I can't go and do manual labor on the side. If you have a skill, or at least the right job you can still live in Japan. |
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Shiratori1
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OR, you could just get a part time before you leave and save up the money necessary to live in Japan for the semester or two that you plan on being there. 
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shiranehito
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Interesting. My friend was also a foreigner studying in Japan. She told me that it's really hard to find a job there. She managed to get a "decent" work, though she worked on graveyard shift. She worked as a bartender and her income wasn't very satisfying. For students, of course they have to study, but how can they study if they can't even afford living?
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Banken
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Says the person who has clearly never lived in Japan. |
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Tenbyakugon
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It's very interesting to hear the "taking our jobs" argument being used against, possibly, Americans, which are always going for that argument when it comes to illegal immigration dialogue.
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Shiroi Hane
Encyclopedia Editor
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If they were concerned about American students, I would have thought they would be printing the pamplets in English also. |
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Megiddo
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Glad someone here gets it. This work isn't suited for someone who is in the country to be educated. Particularly when it's so common a tactic (in the US at least) to use a student visa as leverage to force someone to work in the sex industry. |
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