Japan Catches 5 Foreigners on Immigration Blacklist with New Fingerprinting Policy
Japan has been a staunch support of the U.S. in the fight against terrorist.
Consequently, the country feels they may be the next target.
Japan started fingerprinting all foreigners and doing photo checks on persons over 16-years of age….even longtime residents are scanned.
In less than a week, five names have come up among the 800,000 names on Japan's blacklist, including some who have already been deported.
One was sent packing and four more are being investigated.
Only diplomats, government guests and permanent residents who have lived in J
apan for generations can get in without being demoralized.
They can fingerprint me if they like, if it will help catch terrorists.
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November 28, 2007
A lot of Japan-bloggers have been talking about this one, most against. There is even a new site dedicated to the issue called Re-entry Japan.
I found out about that on KeepingPaceInJapan
Seems like this makes a decent case for having the system though. I don’t know…
December 13, 2007
I’m a Permanent Resident of Japan, from the UK and have lived here since 1994. Japan has never been attacked by foreign terrorists and if such attack is likely it will happen overseas. Japan has been attacked by home grown terrorists. The introduction of fingerprinting is against the Japanese Constitution which affords protection to all peoples who are in Japan and not just Japanese nationals.