Japan will fingerprint and photograph all foreigners!

[Bongo]

Japan will fingerprint and photograph all foreigners entering the country and allow for the immediate deportation of suspected terrorists as part of a comprehensive plan focused on foreigners, according to the government's counter-terrorism taskforce.
Mainichi.
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20041205p2a00m0fp011000c.html
Xenophobic government policies towards foreigners while Japanese are shown training in videos in Al Qaeda camps. Ha! Of course fingerprinting all Japanese and taking their photographs would constitute human rights violations. Hang on, are we foreign residents not also human?:lol:

[vir-jin]

[cstaylor]

Now, does this affect foreign residents of Japan?

[omae mona]

Now, does this affect foreign residents of Japan?

Hope not. If I have to go to that god-awful immigration office in Shinagawa again I'm bringing a sledgehammer with me. Otherwise, they can either dig up my print from my 1990's alien regstration card file, or they can try to extract it from the big close-up photo of my middle finger which I'll be happy to send along.

Anybody remember what led to them stopping the practice of fingerprinting in the first place?

[vir-jin]

Now, does this affect foreign residents of Japan?

xmas story. We will be counted and when Jesus boy the saviour joines us many children will be murdered.

[Bongo]

Yeah, when I first came here in 82 fingerprints were required.
The second generation Koreans born in Japan were very influential in their constant court batles to end this policy.
Even so, after it was abolished I went to the ward office, made them fish out my file and forced them to eraze my fingerprint.
Wonder if they did this for people that did not demand it?
Sad, but rights are only rights when you demand them!

[Buraku]

Goodbye human rights for Gaijins... this is nothing new

You know I was gonna bring up the fact that in the past Japan had a nasty habbit of having its own 'kill the gaijin party' with the crucifixions of foreigners or how in 1923 they went about a horrible and barbaric Massacre of Koreans in Japan. But instead I'll refer to some of its more 'Modern' Leaders. Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda who says women who are raped are "asking for it" by the way they dress. Kiichi Inoue, the Tokyo minister said that the murder of a classmate by an 11-year-old schoolgirl indicated a sign of women's progress. Japanese Yoshiro Mori said that childless women should be denied all welfare. The Japan party lawmaker Seiichi Ota has been noted for saying and repeatedly declaring that gang rapists were "vigorous" and "close to normal", and at least had a healthy attitude to sex. Takami Eto has made pro-Nazi claims like the Yanks/British/Whites started world War 2 and that the Nanking massacre was a fictional writing. Yoshitada Konoike said the parents of a boy suspected of killing a small child should be beheaded samurai style as a warning to parents who do not control their children effectively. The parents (of the 12-year-old boy) should be pulled through the streets and their heads should be chopped off," Mr Konoike told a news conference of Japanese lemmings. And of course we have the Yasukuni crap and the great Ishihara Governor blinky who constantly refers to women, whites and old people using racial terms, comes up with a new weekly radical statement and frequently refers to the Chinese as N%$ggers. Strange how the Japanese could re-elected governor blinky-hara

But when you have a listen to what those other leaders have been saying I guess he could be called close-to-the-norm

[Kuang_Grade]

While this is being proposed for Japan in the near future, many of these rules are already in place and being enforced in the US under the US VISIT program
http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/interapp/content_multi_image/content_multi_image_0006.xml

....although I don't know about immediate deportation....I believe the US's M.O. is usually to stick people in prison for a few months during the legal proceedings to deport them...although, in some cases, they can be refused entry in the US, like they did with cat stevens/yusuf islam a few months ago.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43282-2004Sep22.html

Yusuf Islam, who became famous in the 1970s as the pop singer Cat Stevens, left the United States on a United Airlines flight to London yesterday after being denied entry because he was on several government watch lists, U.S. officials said.

On Tuesday, Islam, who lives in Britain, was aboard a London-to-Washington flight with his daughter when it was diverted to Bangor, Maine. Islam had been expecting to head on to Japan, a U.S. official said. His daughter continued aboard the United Airlines flight to Washington while Islam remained detained in Bangor by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials. Yesterday, Islam was flown to Dulles International Airport, where he boarded a flight for London.

US citizens/resident aliens are not subject to this, nor are Mexicans (good thing there are so many overt physical differences between Mexicans and people from many parts of the Islamic world AND Mexican travel documents are simply impossible to forge AND we all know that terrorists will only fly into the country and just not walk in across the unguarded US/Mexican border) but Canadians are.

US Folks will get their turn to be scanned when the new biometric passports start to become standard issue (test runs with diplomatic passports are to start in 2005, with standard passports to follow likely in late 2005 or 2006). Although they talk a lot about facial geometry as the biometric, I have my doubts they will work that all out and just settle with fingerprints...or use both facial geometry and fingerprints

http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,62876,00.html

Although Congress hasn't mandated that U.S. passports contain biometrics, the State Department, along with other federal agencies, plans to begin a pilot program by the end of the year and hopes to begin issuing only biometric passport by 2005, according to Lou Fintor, a State Department spokesman.

[puargs]

Kuang, you're right- ALL of my foreign friends had to be scanned by the DHS when they came to the US this last fall. They came from Japan, France, Germany, Austria, and Korea, and they ALL had to have their picture taken, fingerprint recorded, and a little mini-screening to go through.

It's not just Japan that's extra-conservative right now

[GuyJean]

It's not just Japan that's extra-conservative right now

Fullajah is the Jesusland experiment:
You'll Need Your Retina Scanned to Re-enter Fallujah
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/12/05/returning_fallujans_will_face_clampdown

Under the plans, troops would funnel Fallujans to so-called citizen processing centers on the outskirts of the city to compile a database of their identities through DNA testing and retina scans.

Residents would receive badges displaying their home addresses that they must wear at all times. Buses would ferry them into the city, where cars, the deadliest tool of suicide bombers, would be banned.

One idea that has stirred debate among Marine officers would require all men to work, for pay, in military-style battalions. Depending on their skills, they would be assigned jobs in construction, waterworks, or rubble-clearing platoons.

Hey Iraq! How you likin' your new freedoms?..

GJ

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

Residents would receive badges displaying their home addresses that they must wear at all times. Buses would ferry them into the city, where cars, the deadliest tool of suicide bombers, would be banned.

I would of thought bombs were..

[Bongo]

Residents would receive badges displaying their home addresses that they must wear at all times. Buses would ferry them into the city, where cars, the deadliest tool of suicide bombers, would be banned.

Sounds like NK.

[stuckinkysuhu]

Actually they don't mention that Canadians aren't subject, but they aren't.

I went through Seattle and there were 2 lines - one for foreigners and one for US citizens/residents. I waited in the foreigner line which made the one at Narita seem like a breeze by comparison. When I got to the fingerprinting and photographing place after like 40 minutes they told me "Canadian? What are you doing here? You should be in the US Citizens line?" as if it was common knowledge.

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

Actually they don't mention that Canadians aren't subject, but they aren't.

I went through Seattle and there were 2 lines - one for foreigners and one for US citizens/residents. I waited in the foreigner line which made the one at Narita seem like a breeze by comparison. When I got to the fingerprinting and photographing place after like 40 minutes they told me "Canadian? What are you doing here? You should be in the US Citizens line?" as if it was common knowledge.

Did you pick up the wrong back pack, i.e. the one without the flag.

[GuyJean]

Sounds like NK.

Or the 'motherland'..

[Kuang_Grade]

[Bongo]

It was just reported that on entering Japan ALL foreigners will be fingerprinted and photographed.
Ohhhhhhhhh...The Good old days of priests refusing to be fingerprinted and photographed is about to return.
I am going to tell them to FUCK OFF and don't really care if I get back in or not with racist policies like this.

[Buraku]

Check this poor gaijin out

the Japanese have decided to SH*T on him
yes that's really shi t like Manure - Turds

this is truly one F*cked Gaijin

http://forum.japantoday.com/m_287997/mpage_1/key_/tm.htm#288022

[Ketou]

I think I remember seeing a similar incident on the news a while back.
Some guy was constantly getting apartment door pissed on, so he set up a camera. They found it was his next door neighbour who was interestingly enough a cop!

[Mulboyne]

Reuters: Japan fingerprinting plans spark opposition
Japan plans to fingerprint foreigners arriving at its ports and airports in a move aimed at preventing terrorism, a Justice Ministry official said on Wednesday, but the move is opposed by a lawyers' group...Japan's Federation of Bar Associations said in a statement on its Web site that the plans should be abandoned because the fingerprinting of foreigners violated a constitutional requirement to treat people with respect. The use of biometrics -- identifying individuals through techniques such as retinal scanning, face recognition and fingerprinting -- raises questions about privacy and control of personal information, the lawyers' group said. It also expressed concern over the difficulty of defining "terrorism"...more...

[Taro Toporific]

Japan to fingerprint foreigners under proposed immigration bill
MSN-Mainichi Daily News, February 8, 2006
Japan plans to fingerprint foreigners aged 16 or over when they enter the country as an anti-terrorism measure, details of a revised immigration bill obtained by the Mainichi have shown....
....In addition to fingerprinting, the Ministry of Justice is also considering photographing visitors. Fingerprints and other data will be stored on computers, and compared with those of people who have been deported in the past. Visitors posing as others will be prevented from re-entering the country. If the data matches that held by law enforcement authorities, it will also be used in criminal investigations....more...

[Buraku]

double standards : Osama doesn't hang out in Kamikaze Nippon

majority of terrorists in Nippon have been Japanese-born,
so when are the J-cops gonna interrogate, photograph, harass and fingerprint all the Japanese public because of a few J-AUM or J-uyoku-wackos

[Greji]

double standards : Osama doesn't hang out in Kamikaze Nippon

I don't know when the last time you have been through the US, but every non-US passport holder gets fingerprinted, visa waiver, or otherwise! They also take the fingerprint of everyone applying for a visa. Other places do this, abeit not as many, but Japan is probably just mimicing the US. As I'm sure you know, it was only required for all resident FGs before, it is just that it will now be required of everyone. Since I'm a resident, I don't have much grief with this as I have already been there, done that and got the T-shirt, which enables the gestapo to be able to come get me anytime they want. Shoganai!

[ketchupkatsu]

Just read this in Mainichi. It seems like after November you better make sure you don't have any airplane food left in your teeth before you go through customs

Japan adopts law to collect foreigners' fingerprints

The Diet on Wednesday enacted a bill to oblige foreign visitors to provide such identification data as fingerprints and facial photographs as a measure to enhance counterterrorism efforts.

The bill to revise the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act, approved at a plenary session of the House of Councillors, empowers the justice minister to expel suspected terrorists.

The new law will be put into effect by November 2007.

Visitors aged 16 or younger, special permanent foreign residents such as residents of ethnic Koreans, state guests and diplomats will be exempted from the law. more...

[homesweethome]

Centralized Data Base

The Japanese government looks set to change its Alien Registration Law so its central authorities can handle all administration, registration and issuance of ID cards for foreigners.

If the move to a centralised system takes place, municipalities are expected to still keep a list of their foreign residents.

I think this has been hashed throughly, so everybody knows what's coming, but for Pete's sake...

[FG Lurker]

Centralized Data Base

The Japanese government looks set to change its Alien Registration Law so its central authorities can handle all administration, registration and issuance of ID cards for foreigners.

If the move to a centralised system takes place, municipalities are expected to still keep a list of their foreign residents.

I think this has been hashed throughly, so everybody knows what's coming, but for Pete's sake...

What is so odd about this? Municipalities keep lists of Japanese residents as well. I would sooner they gave FGs normal residence certificates, but barring that some sort of list is going to be needed unless the ward office system changes drastically.

[homesweethome]

What is so odd about this?

There isn't anything odd or unusual about it at all, it's been going on for a long time, the change is that it will all be 'centralized' which has been the way of the world for some time now.

[FG Lurker]

There isn't anything odd or unusual about it at all, it's been going on for a long time, the change is that it will all be 'centralized' which has been the way of the world for some time now.

Ah, okay, I misread what you had written then.

[homesweethome]

Hey, No Problemo!



Just watch out for the "mark of the beast."

[otakuden]

will the fingerprints be in blood? or ink?:ninja3: