After all, American citizens who go to work in Japan must:
a) obtain a visa;
b) submit photographs, fingerprints, fill out forms; have a sponsor; c) cannot go on Japanese social services/welfare but must work and have guaranteed income--if not a student or missionary;
d) be given a "Foreigners Card" which has their fingerprint and photograph and personal details. This foreigner card must, by established immigration law, be carried on the person wherever they go for as long as they are a resident in Japan.
e) A Japanese police officer can ask at any time to see such a card, or passport, to verify that the person is in the country illegally. They have been known to stop someone and just check it (even on the basis they are non-Japanese) and in some cases, people illegally in their country such as visa overstayers, have been detained and then processed for deportation in as quickly as three days, allowing them to get their affairs in order and ship their things out of Japan.
LOS ANGELES HAS THE FOLLOWING SISTER CITY AGREEMENTS WITH *CRUEL* *MEAN-SPIRITED* JAPAN:
Nagoya, Japan
http://sistercities.lacity.org/html/06.htm
A variety of other activities occur between the City of Los Angeles and Japan, which are taxpayer funded.
This needs to be brought up as a general city council issue at the next city council. /sarc
f) learn japanese