* * * * * * * * * T E R R I E 'S T A K E * * * * * * *<br>A weekly roundup of news & information from Terrie Lloyd.<br>(<a href="http://www.terrie.com">http://www.terrie.com</a>)<br><br>General Edition Sunday, March 11, 2012, Issue No. 653<br>
<br>+++ INDEX<br><br>- What's New -- Foreigner Residency Registration Changes<br>- News -- Itochu leasing company to buy into Jetstar Japan<br>- Special message from Japan Tourism Agency<br>- Job Vacancies<br>- Upcoming Events<br>
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ask all readers to take a moment to pause and pray for the <br>20,000 who died this time last year. Spare a thought as <br>well for the survivors, especially children who lost one or<br>both parents, and who now must overcome loneliness and fear<br>
as they recover.<br><br>***********************<br><br>Now to our main commentary...<br><br>Those of us who are resident foreigners in Japan will have <br>some big changes coming up on July 9th, when the Alien <br>Registration System itself will change. Firstly, your Alien<br>
Registration (AR) card is going to be changed to a IC <br>chipped "Resident Card", and secondly, you will finally get<br>to have a "Juminhyo" (Residence Record). Today's Take is to<br>help you understand what these changes mean and how to get <br>
compliant with the new standard.<br><br>Before we start, though, our thanks to Steve Burson of the <br>H&R Group and the MoreThanRelo team for supplying the <br>following material. You can see the original reference on <br>
their website at <a href="http://bit.ly/A9wGXG">http://bit.ly/A9wGXG</a>, however, we have <br>added in a few more questions which Steve kindly answered. <br><br>***********************<br><br>[MoreThanRelo comments...]<br>
<br>In typical bureaucratic fashion, because 2 ministries are <br>involved in the changes, foreigners in Japan are not <br>getting all the information at once. They are getting it in<br>part from the Justice Ministry and in part from the <br>
Ministry of Internal Affairs<br><br>The following are some links to information on the new <br>system. Best you read these directly.<br><br>Change to Residence Card<br><a href="http://www.immi-moj.go.jp/newimmiact_1/">www.immi-moj.go.jp/newimmiact_1/</a> (Japanese)<br>
<a href="http://www.immi-moj.go.jp/newimmiact_1/en/index.html">www.immi-moj.go.jp/newimmiact_1/en/index.html</a> (English)<br><br>Change to Residence Record (Juminhyo)<br><a href="http://bit.ly/wqKEwE">http://bit.ly/wqKEwE</a> (Japanese)<br>
<a href="http://bit.ly/xtmixz">http://bit.ly/xtmixz</a> (English)<br><br>Here are some frequently asked questions for your <br>reference:<br><br>Q: I am in Japan now and I have an alien registration card.<br>By when do I have to change my card?<br>
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residence that is longer than 3 months, you will receive <br>your residence card at the airport in Tokyo (Narita and <br>Haneda), Nagoya (Centrair) or Osaka (Kansai Airport). The <br>card will apparently take 2-3 minutes to prepare in <br>
addition to the other finger printing, photographs and <br>other administration you undergo on arrival. The card that <br>is issued will NOT have your address printed on it. Within <br>14 days you need to go to your local government office and <br>
register your address. At this time the address will be <br>written on the back of the card, and then you will be asked<br>to complete the "Residence Record (Juminhyo)" details also.<br>This puts you on the local register of people, and has <br>
links to your health insurances, pension, etc.<br><br>Q: What happens if I don't come to Japan through Narita, <br>Haneda, Nagoya or Kansai Airports?<br>A: You will NOT be issued with a card at the airport, but <br>will still need to report to your local authority within 14<br>
days. At this time you will lodge your address, and then <br>also complete your "Residence Record (Juminhyo)" details. <br>The local authority will then send your details to the <br>Immigration Bureau who will issue your card and send it to <br>
the address you have lodged. This process might take 2-3 <br>weeks.<br><br>Q: Do I need to submit photos for my card?<br>A: If you are coming to Japan for the first time on a <br>mid-long term visa (ie. not a 90-day one), you will have <br>
sent in photos on your visa applications. These photos will<br>be scanned and used on your residence card. Therefore, <br>there is no need to supply a photo at the airport, as it <br>will already be in the Immigration Bureau system. If you <br>
are renewing your visa, your renewal application will <br>require you to provide a photograph (this is something new,<br>as photographs aren't required currently). This photo will <br>be scanned and used on your card.<br>
<br>Q: Can I change my alien registration card to my residence <br>card at one of the 4 main airports?<br>A: No, you can't. This may change in the future, but as of <br>now, the only people who will receive their residence card <br>
at the airport are people that are newly coming to Japan <br>on a new mid- or long-term visa.<br><br>Q: Can I make changes to my alien registration card without<br>getting a new residence card?<br>A? From July 9th, the only change that your local government<br>
office can make on your alien registration card or your <br>residence card is your "address". If anything else changes,<br>you need to report to the Immigration Bureau to make the <br>change, and automatically your alien registration card will<br>
be changed to the new residence card.<br><br>Q: Do I have to report in person about changes in my <br>employer?<br>A: No, you don't need to report in person for this, as your<br>employer will no longer be listed on your residence card. <br>
However, if you don't report in person, you do need to <br>submit a form to the immigration bureau by post, to notify <br>the change.<br><br>Q: The new Residence Card does not show my passport number.<br>Do I need to report changes in this?<br>
A: To the immigration bureau, no, your passport number will<br>not be needed. However, it is likely that your passport <br>number will be taken by the local authorities when you are <br>making your "Residence Record". In fact, under this new <br>
system, except for the first time when you arrive in Japan,<br>status of residence will no longer be issued by way of a <br>stamp in your passport. Under the new system, your <br>Residence Card will be everything, and your visa status <br>
will not appear in your passport (apart from the very first<br>time you arrive). So, every time you renew your "visa <br>(status of residence)" you will be issued with a new <br>Residence Card.<br>* Important Note: It is going to be quite important, <br>
therefore, that you always have your residence card with <br>you when you are traveling back to Japan. At the airline <br>check in, they will no longer be able to verify your visa <br>status in your passport!<br><br>Q: What about children under 16?<br>
A: Children will be issued with a Residence Card, but no <br>photo will be placed on the card. Children up to the age of<br>16 have no legal requirement to keep the card on their <br>person, as per the child alien registration card from <br>
before. From the day of their 16th birthday, children need<br>to receive a new residence card with the photo, and will <br>need to keep the card on their person like the rest of us.<br><br>Q: How will passport numbers be recorded, and how will they<br>
be upgraded when passports are renewed?<br>A: Up until this point, passport numbers have been recorded<br>on the AR card. The passport number is not placed on the <br>new Residence Card and there is no need to notify changes <br>
in your passport number if you get a new one. The Residence<br>Record (Juminhyo) also does not require your passport <br>number, so the only place where your passport number will <br>be recorded now is when you come in and out of the airport,<br>
and perhaps on the applications for your visa and visa <br>renewals. This is a change in favor of everyone, as there <br>is no longer anything to do when your passport changes.<br><br>Q: The new Residence Card contains an IC Chip. What <br>
information will be on the IC Chip?<br>A: Under Japanese Law, they are only allowed to record on <br>the IC Chip the information that is written on the card. <br>It will contain no other private information that is not<br>
already listed on the card.<br><br>Q: What is the point of the IC Chip on the card?<br>A: The IC Chip will enable authorities and 3rd parties to <br>verify that the information written on the card is <br>actually correct -- i.e, this is to protect residence cards<br>
from being forged.<br><br>Q: Who will be able to read the information on the IC <br>Chip?<br>A: Anyone who has a "reader" will be able to view the <br>information. Obviously, readers will be provided by the <br>
Immigration Bureau to all their offices, to all airports <br>and to the police. The "readers" will also be sold to <br>anyone who wishes to have one. One can imagine that banks <br>and perhaps mobile phone providers will initially be the <br>
type of places who will buy the "readers". You can say the <br>"readers" will be similar machines to those that we are <br>used to at train stations now, where station staff can <br>see the records of where your train pass has been (e.g., <br>
Pasmo or Suica in Tokyo).<br><br>Q: How long is it going to take to get a Residence Card at <br>the Immigration Bureau?<br>A: Although the exact procedures are not yet set, we <br>confirmed that this is likely to be similar to the time it <br>
takes to get your Re-Entry Permit. That is, they will issue<br>on the spot on the same day. However, currently they are <br>not confident in committing to any guarantees. The <br>Immigration Bureau recommends residents to refrain from <br>
changing their cards immediately, as if there is a rush on <br>the Immigration Centers they may not be able to handle the <br>sudden influx. Best to "stay away for a while"!! But, <br>eventually, it should be a very straight-forward process. <br>
If you are renewing your visa, you will receive a new <br>Residence Card once the new visa has been approved <br>(obviously not in the same day).<br><br>Q: What is the biggest time saver of this new system?<br>A: The biggest time saver for new arrivals to Japan is that<br>
you won't need to get a re-entry permit. As long as you are<br>going to be coming back to Japan within 12 months, you will<br>be exempt from needing a re-entry permit. This means you <br>won't need to travel to the Immigration Bureau for re-entry <br>
permit procedures like you do now. All you need to do is <br>report to your local ward office.<br><br>Q: Won't there be problems at 3rd country airports when you<br>show a passport with no sign of where you've been for the <br>
last few months/years?<br>A: The Immigration Bureau has indicated they will be <br>communicating the changes to other countries as thoroughly <br>as possible. However, no matter how well they do it, there <br>will no doubt be confusion initially at every airport that <br>
boards a person to Japan. The best and only advice <br>therefore will be, without fail, always take your Passport <br>and Residence Card with you to the airport, and treat them <br>as a pair when you are traveling...<br><br>
*******************<br><br>Again, our thanks to <a href="mailto:steve_burson@morethanrelo.com">steve_burson@morethanrelo.com</a> for this<br>contribution.<br><br>Lastly, we are making a last call for any readers <br>interested in starting a company and who may wish to attend<br>
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- Slow pace of Tohoku reconstruction<br>- Itochu leasing company to buy into Jetstar Japan<br>- Major REIT IPO in the works?<br>- TEPCO asset sell-off continues with cable firm<br><br><br><br>-> Civil servant pay-cuts a certainty<br>
<br>One measure passing parliament at present which is sure to <br>please the electorate is a proposed two-year 7% pay cut for<br>all civil servants, which will start in April this year. <br>While the measure will save JPY580bn in government costs <br>
and thus contribute to badly needed general funds, the real<br>chord it will strike with voters is that bureaucrats are <br>finally seeing their preferential treatment being reined in<br>so that they are more in line with regular company workers.<br>
The wide gap in salaries and privileges enjoyed by many <br>civil servants has been a sore point for years, and never <br>more so than now, when Japan is looking at raising taxes <br>and cutting public benefits across the board. ***Ed: Now <br>
all they need to do is finish the job of eliminating all <br>the money-wasting, regulation-spewing semi-public <br>organizations that the country is infested with.** <br>(Source: TT commentary from <a href="http://japantimes.co.jp">japantimes.co.jp</a>, Feb 24, <br>
2012)<br><br><a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120224a1.html">http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120224a1.html</a><br><br>-> Slow pace of Tohoku reconstruction<br><br>A Bloomberg article shares some good stats about the <br>
depressingly slow pace of reconstruction taking place in <br>Tohoku. According to the government's recently minted <br>Reconstruction Agency, only 16% of the JPY1.9trn earmarked <br>for local authorities in the region has actually been <br>
assigned to specific projects. It appears there are three <br>major reasons for the slowness: 1) the political wrangling <br>that had to happen to get the Reconstruction Agency formed,<br>which only started last month; 2) the lack of resources <br>
in Tohoku to effect reconstruction, since many companies <br>went out of business during the 2009-2011 period of <br>government construction project cuts; and 3) the difficulty<br>for locals to come to consensus on where to move and when. <br>
Of this latter problem, there are 220 communities which <br>were exposed to the tsunami and which are expected to <br>relocate to higher ground, but only 12 have so far managed <br>to reach agreement and are ready to receive government aid.<br>
***Ed: The disaster has hit people in different ways, and <br>it appears that the ability to make decisions and to move <br>on in life is amongst these. This is is not surprising, <br>everyone needs time to grieve for what they have lost, and <br>
thinking about moving on must be incredibly hard to do.** <br>(Source: TT commentary from <a href="http://bloomberg.com">bloomberg.com</a>, Mar 9, 2012)<br><br><a href="http://bloom.bg/y7oTD3">http://bloom.bg/y7oTD3</a> <br>
<br>-> Itochu leasing company to buy into Jetstar Japan<br><br>Itochu's Century Tokyo Leasing will apparently buy 16.7% <br>of Jetstar Japan, as a means of securing future business<br>for its aircraft leasing operations. The shares will come <br>
from Mitsubishi, which currently has 33.4% of the new <br>firm. The other shareholders in Jetstar Japan are Qantas <br>and Japan Airlines. ***Ed: Interesting to see the major <br>Japanese corporations start to realize that Low-cost <br>
Carriers could actually make a big impact on the Japanese <br>economy (and indeed the entire travel-related economy in <br>the North-South Asia region). Indeed, we think that the <br>same changes which have come about with Uniqlo in the <br>
apparel market will be reflected in air and land travel <br>here over the next five years.** (Source: TT commentary <br>from <a href="http://reuters.com">reuters.com</a>, Mar 9, 2012)<br><br><a href="http://reut.rs/zRPQ9j">http://reut.rs/zRPQ9j</a> <br>
<br>-> Major REIT IPO in the works?<br><br>A market rumor reported in World Property Channel has it <br>that Global Logistics Properties (GLP), a REIT held by the <br>Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, Citigroup, <br>
Goldman Sachs, and Nomura, is preparing for a US$1bn IPO in<br>Tokyo sometime later this year. If the IPO goes ahead, it <br>will be the largest by a REIT since 2006 when Nippon <br>Commercial Investment raised JPY121bn. GLP specializes in <br>
warehouse properties. (Source: TT commentary from <br><a href="http://worldpropertychannel.com">worldpropertychannel.com</a>, Mar 9, 2012)<br><br><a href="http://bit.ly/wBFyAX">http://bit.ly/wBFyAX</a> <br><br>-> TEPCO asset sell-off continues with cable firm<br>
<br>Telco KDDI has announced that it is acquiring the remaining<br>shares of cable TV firm Japan Cablenet (JCN), from former <br>partner TEPCO. JCN is currently Japan's second largest <br>cable TV operator as measured by subscribers. The sale by <br>
TEPCO marks an acceleration of its efforts to sell assets <br>so as to cover compensation payments to residents in and <br>around the Fukushima power plant. (Source: TT commentary <br>from <a href="http://e.nikkei.com">e.nikkei.com</a>, Mar 11, 2012)<br>
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-----------------------------------------------------------<br><br>+++ SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM JAPAN TOURISM AGENCY<br><br>It has been exactly one year to the day since the triple <br>disaster of earthquake, tsunami, and radiation struck the <br>
Tohoku region of Japan. The many pictures and stories <br>circulating in the media are a great reminder about how <br>fragile and precious life is, and how at the whim of an <br>unseen celestial hand, entire communities can be wiped <br>
away and others changed forever. Of all the countries to <br>live with the burden of repeated natural disasters, Japan <br>is one of the best equipped psychologically. Maybe this is <br>why we love living here so much...!<br>
<br>Anyway, we commemorate this edition with a personal message<br>from Hiroshi Mizohata, the Commissioner of the Japan <br>Tourism Agency.<br><br>Mizohata:<br><br>"One year has passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake <br>
that caused unprecedented havoc. I wish to express <br>heartfelt sympathy for those people afflicted by the <br>earthquake. Moreover, I wish to express heartfelt gratitude<br>to peoples of the many countries and regions which gave us <br>
warmhearted support following the disaster.<br><br>The great earthquake not only caused catastrophic damage to<br>tourism, but also seriously impacted the tourism sector, <br>with numbers of tourists nationwide plummeting both at home<br>
and abroad due to a mood of voluntary restraint and worries<br>about visiting Japan. <br><br>However, Japan is rising again.<br><br>With respect to tourism to Japan, as a result of our <br>communicating abroad as well as my personal visits to <br>
directly explain the actual situation in Japan, foreign <br>perceptions are favorably changing faster than expected. <br>Nonetheless, in consideration of a slow recovery in some <br>markets, especially South Korea, we will execute measures <br>
to overcome harmful rumors and actively promote Japan once <br>again as a tourism destination.<br><br>The Japan Tourism Agency and JNTO (the Japan National <br>Tourism Organization), together with various other <br>organizations, has started a "Japan. Thank You." campaign <br>
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Web: <a href="http://www.biosjp.com">www.biosjp.com</a><br>-----------------------------------------------------------<br><br>***------------------------****-------------------------***<br><br>+++ UPCOMING EVENTS/ANNOUNCEMENTS<br>
<br>---------------- Start a Company in Japan -----------------<br><br>Entrepreneur's Handbook Seminar 17th of March, 2012<br><br>If you have been considering setting up your own company,<br>find out what it takes to make it successful. Terrie Lloyd,<br>
founder of over 17 start-up companies in Japan, will be <br>giving an English-language seminar and Q&A on starting up a<br>company in Japan.<br><br>This is an ideal opportunity to find out what is involved,<br>and to ask specific questions that are not normally <br>
answered in business books. All materials are in English <br>and are Japan-focused.<br><br>For more details:<br><a href="http://www.japaninc.com/entrepreneur_handbook_seminar">http://www.japaninc.com/entrepreneur_handbook_seminar</a><br>
-----------------------------------------------------------<br><br>------------------ ICA Event - March 15 -------------------<br><br>Speaker: Michael King (President of Citrix Japan)<br>Title: User Expectations drives new approaches in New IT<br>
<br>Details: Complete event details at <a href="http://www.icajapan.jp/">http://www.icajapan.jp/</a><br>(RSVP Required)<br><br>Date: Thursday, March 15, 2012<br>Time: 6:30 Doors open, Drinks and Snacks<br>Cost: 2,000 yen (members), 3,000 yen (non-members) <br>
Open to all, venue is Wall Street Associates<br><br>May: <a href="http://bit.ly/x0ytH6">http://bit.ly/x0ytH6</a><br>-----------------------------------------------------------<br><br>***------------------------****-------------------------***<br>
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