世論 What Japan Thinks

I read a report today of a Chinese student who got deported from Japan for gold-farming in an online game, that is, collecting in-game items and selling them off for cash, making at least 6 million yen in the process, and possibly up to 150 million. According to the terms of not just the student visa, but most other types of visas, only if you apply for “Permission to engage in an activity other than that permitted by the status of residence previously granted” can you work for up to 28 hours per week on a side job. Now, many of my fellow bloggers have AdSense, JList or other affiliate programs on their sites that must be making them a wee bit on the side, and some of the harder-working bloggers are perhaps putting more than 4 hours a day into their blogs. One might even argue that being a JList affiliate classes you as engaging in a prohibited “visual-transmitting-type adult entertainment business”.

So, if you are getting the click-throughs rolling in, my advice to you would be to either spend your profits locally or get your cash paid into a foreign bank! Except that would still be potentially illegal so I couldn’t condone such activity, and other suitable CYA wording.