[Sangetsu]

If you are a US citizen coming to Japan to avoid the draft, forget it. Apparently you don't know of the military treaties between the US, or the power that the US military has in Japan.

In the 10,000 to 1 chance that the draft were reinstated, your name would be put on a State Department hit list, which is checked by Japanese immigration regularly. Once your name was found, your visa would be revoked, and you would be on a bus to one of the numerous US military bases located in Japan, and from there, you would be returned to America to face whatever charges were preferred against you.

Unlike the government in America, in Japan your movements are always kept track of. When you get your registration card here, you'll see them take out a map of your neighborhood, and write your name in the block of whatever address you are living at. They will also write your name on the address of your employer. Updated copies of these lists and maps go to the local police departments regularly, if they want to come and get you, it will only take them a few minutes to do it.

The draft will not be reinstated. But in the off chance that it were to happen, you could run to Canada and renounce your American citizenship. Then you could live with the thought that since you didn't go, another person had to be picked to take your place.

Citizenship may be a right, but it comes with responsibilities, and sometimes even risks. Were it not for those who were drafted and served in earlier times, you yourself may not have been alive now. You may disagree with being drafted and fighting in an "unjust and illegal war", but there is no such thing as a "just and legal war".

Perfection is a quality which human beings lack. And, like it or not, you are part of a society which doesn't always make the best or most correct choices. That may not seem fair, but life isn't, hasn't been, and will never be fair.