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Hi Blog. Good news if this actually comes to fruition: The ludicrous system of registering NJ separately from J in residency certificates (juuminhyou) may be coming to an end. According a Kyodo article (that is too deficient in detail — Japan Times, do another article in depth, please!), we’ll start seeing NJ registered with their families in three years. And hopefully as real, bonafide residents too (even though this is still not clear thanks to Kyodo blurbing). At least we’ll see the end of the ridiculous gaikokujin touroku zumi shoumeisho and the invisible NJ husbands and wives. More on why the current registry situation is problematic here, including NJ being left out for tax-rebates, and not being included in official local government tallies of population. Arudou Debito in Sapporo
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The Japan Times, Friday, Dec. 19, 2008
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20081219a4.html
New registry rules for foreigners proposed
Japanese nationals are registered on a household basis.
In a report, the panel of experts under the Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications also recommended scrapping the current two-tier system in which the Justice Ministry handles immigration and stay permits, while local governments handle registrations of foreign residents, and called for a unified control system.
Based on the recommendation report, the internal affairs ministry will submit a bill for the envisaged foreigner registry system to an ordinary Diet session next year, ministry officials said.
The proposed steps are expected to help improve the welfare, education and other public services for foreign residents, but critics warn it could lead to increased surveillance.
The number of non-Japanese residents has topped 2 million, more than doubling in the past 20 years.
Under the current system, non-Japanese residents are registered with local governments on an individual basis. The new system is designed to register them on a household basis and the information will be shared by local governments across Japan.
An advisory panel to the justice minister recommended in March that local governments abolish the issuance of foreign registration certificates.
ENDS
4 comments on “Kyodo: NJ to be registered as family members (residents?) by 2012”
beware of 2012, thats when the big brother GOJ, will have a tighter grip on our rights and will be watching are every move..remember it is for there benefit not ours…
That article is too vague to really make heads or tails of. I imagine what they are trying to convey is the same as these Japanese articles:
「「外国人台帳」導入求める 総務・法務省の懇談会報告」
http://www.nikkei.co.jp/news/seiji/20081219AT3S1800Q18122008.html
「外国人台帳」導入求める 総務・法務省の懇談会報告
総務、法務両省の「外国人台帳制度に関する懇談会」（座長・藤原静雄筑波大教授）は18日、現行の外国人登録制度を改め、日本人の住民基本台帳と同様の「外国人台帳制度」の導入を求める報告書を公表した。政府は早ければ2012年の導入をめざし、来年の通常国会に関連法案を提出する。
外国人登録者数や国際結婚の件数が増加しているほか、外国人の在留期間も長期化傾向にある。現行制度では日本人と外国人からなる「複数国籍世帯」の正確な把握が難しいとの指摘があった。外国人にも台帳方式を導入して健康保険や児童手当など福祉サービスのため生活状況を把握しやすくし、転出入など各種届け出の簡素化もはかる。
法務省は「在留カード」の交付など、外国人の在留管理に必要な情報の一元化をめざす制度を検討。懇談会では新制度の導入にあわせて台帳制度についても議論してきた。(18日 14:45)
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「外国人台帳制度：外国人に住民票、来年にも法案提出－－総務・法務省」
http://mainichi.jp/select/seiji/news/20081219ddm012010126000c.html
外国人台帳制度：外国人に住民票、来年にも法案提出－－総務・法務省
総務、法務両省の「外国人台帳制度に関する懇談会」は１８日、現行の外国人登録制度に代わる外国人台帳制度の概要をまとめた。住民基本台帳と同様の制度を設け、外国人住民票を作成する。両省は早ければ来年の通常国会に関連法案を提出、公布から３年程度で実施に移す方針だ。
適法に在留する外国人が対象で、外国人住民票には氏名、生年月日、性別、住所など日本人の住民票と同じ情報に加え、国籍や在留資格、在留期間などを記載する。在留期間が更新された場合は法相が各市町村に通知し記載事項を修正。転居した場合は転出届提出も義務付ける。制度導入で、外国人世帯の把握が正確にできるようになる。外国人にとっても各種手続きの窓口が市町村に一本化される利点がある。【石川貴教】
Move to give foreigners same resident registration as Japanese
(Mainichi Japan) December 19, 2008
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20081219p2a00m0na018000c.html
A bill to allow foreign residents to have the same resident registration as Japanese will be submitted to the regular Diet session early next year at the earliest, a government panel has announced.
A meeting on the basic resident register for foreigners, which is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and the Justice Ministry, drafted an outline for the new system on Thursday.
The basic idea is to introduce a system for foreign residents that is akin to the basic resident register for Japanese residents. The new system will replace the current alien registration system.
Foreigners who are legally staying in Japan will be subject to the new scheme. They will have their name, birthday, gender, address and other items registered on their resident records just as Japanese do. In addition, foreign residents will also have their nationality, resident status and the period of stay registered.
When foreign residents renew their period of stay, the justice minister will inform the municipal governments where they live so that local authorities can update information on the resident records. If foreign residents change address, they will have to file a report.
The new system will enable the government to get a clearer grasp of foreign households in the country. For foreign residents, it will make it easier to use various services provided by municipal governments where they live.
The new system will be put into practice three years after the bill is passed into law, the meeting said.
(Mainichi Japan) December 19, 2008
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「外国人住民票の創設提言 転出入の手続き簡素化」
http://www.asahi.com/politics/update/1218/TKY200812180325.html
外国人の在留管理制度見直しを検討してきた総務、法務両省の「外国人台帳制度に関する懇談会」（座長＝藤原静雄・筑波大法科大学院教授）は１８日、「外国人住民票」を新たに作るよう求める報告書をまとめた。これを踏まえ、両省は来年の通常国会に関連法案を提出する方針だ。
現行法では、市町村は日本人については住民票、外国人は外国人登録原票で情報を管理。日本人と外国人が同じ世帯であっても、転居や証明書発行の届け出、申請は別々にする必要がある。住民票には外国人は「備考欄」に任意で記されるだけだ。
報告書では、氏名や住所、国籍、在留期間などを記した外国人住民票を作成。転出や転入は日本人と同じ手続きでできるように簡素化。外国人を含む世帯は全員が載った住民票記載事項証明書を発行できるようにするとした。また、登録した住所と実際の住所が違う外国人が多いことから、市町村長が実態調査などで住所を確認し、職権で住民票の内容を修正、削除できるようにすることも提言した。
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I still smell Tokyo Olympics in all of this. Let’s see, 2009 is when the IOC makes its decision? Lo and behold how all the wonderful windfall that seems to be turning up as of late. Put them on the books before the IOC makes their decision, keep it there until 2016, reverse it after the foreigners have gone home and Ishihara and his buddies can start selling the developed Wangan area for their personal profit. Return to business as usual. I mean really, what does the 12,000 voter bribe have anything to do with us. Yes, it’s nice that we’re getting it since we do pay taxes, but without the voting power that it is supposed to bribe, it’s more meaningless for us than for the Japanese.
So, yeah, as Jim has stated: it’s for their benefit and not the people’s.
If they just add NJ spouses to J’s 住民票 I’ll be satisfied. It’s insulting not to show up on my wife’s certificate.