Japan will fingerprint and photograph all foreigners!

[Ketou]

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

Seminal fluid.

[dimwit]

Seminal fluid.

So will the airlines provide the porn mags and 'ink' vials disembarking from the aircraft.

[Ketou]

So will the airlines provide the porn mags and 'ink' vials disembarking from the aircraft.

No it's all pre-supplied by your smiling immigration official.

[Blah Pete]

Seminal fluid.

Great. The lines are long enough already and now you may get stuck behind some guy who can't get it up and forgot to pack his viagara.
Guess the friendly Immigration lady will have to get a hand on the situation.

[Greji]

Guess the friendly Immigration lady will have to get a hand on the situation.

That's the kind of problem she can sit right on and work out.

I have been anticipating this program for some years and have actively been pursuing the ability to produce proper identification upon demand! This has been done in the spirit of cooperation with the authorities of course!

[Buraku]

Fearing Foreigners
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=513576

Most disturbing about Japanese wariness towards foreigners is a longstanding association of foreigners with crime and rowdiness. This stereotype was most tragically evinced following the 1923 Tokyo Earthquake, when rumors about Korean residents committing acts of sabotage led to mob violence and numerous fatalities. As recently as 2000, right-wing Tokyo Governor Ishihara Shintaro warned of foreigners creating civil disorder in the aftermath of an earthquake. Though the vast majority of the public rejected the comments, they struck a chord with some.

[dimwit]

Buraku has high school gotten out early? To what honor do we own this stream of nonsense and non-sequitor. I mean as much as I love your ability to dredge up three year old threads with dead links...

[Mulboyne]

Buraku has high school gotten out early? To what honor do we own this stream of nonsense and non-sequitor.

It's been moved to another thread. The content of the article is now somewhat related.

[dimwit]

It's been moved to another thread. The content of the article is now somewhat related.

Somewhat is about it.

My suggestion is that we start a 'Wisdom of Buraku' thread in BF and consign about 90% of his post there. Sorry if I am flaming but hey, I been marking exam paper so I have an extremely low BS tolerance at the moment.

[Jack]

It's about time. Japan should fingerprint Americans only just as Brasil does. Brasil only fingerprints Americans. Quid pro quo.

[ichigo partygirl]

maybe Japan has a case for fingerprinting.......

Crime cases drop 1.8% but cyber, foreigner offenses up

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20061108a3.html

"...The number of nonvehicular offenses committed by foreign nationals reached a record 43,622 cases in 2005, up 4.3 percent from the previous year, and coincides with the 11.1 increase from 2004 in foreigners entering Japan, reaching a record 6.12 million in 2005, the report says.

Although nonvehicular offenses committed by foreign nationals represents only 6.7 percent of the country's total crimes, the report states there were sharp increases in crimes by foreigners in Shiga, Nara and Gifu Prefectures.

Nonvehicular penal code offenses by foreign nationals rose 950.2 percent in Shiga from 2001 to 2005, by 582.1 percent in Nara and 465.2 percent in Gifu, the report says.

Theft accounted for 28,525 of the 43,622 criminal cases involving foreigners in 2005, it says.

Visa violations were not included among crime figures for foreigners."

[Greji]

maybe Japan has a case for fingerprinting.......

Crime cases drop 1.8% but cyber, foreigner offenses up

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20061108a3.html

That figure should go down now that you've gone back to Kiwi land!

[ichigo partygirl]

That figure should go down now that you've gone back to Kiwi land!

Well my big blue eyes and long eyelashes seemed to get me out of most trouble

[omae mona]

Hey, folks, the official J-Gov "Fingerprinting Is Cool!" video is out, to prepare us for the start of the new policy prior to November.

Watch the video here!. Sorry, it's not on YouTube yet so I can't figure out how to embed it.

[Kuang_Grade]

Golly, after watching that video, Japan is sure concerned about my safety...being so concerned to protect me from OTHER foreigners while I'm in Japan, since it is clearly only other foreigners who cause any trouble in Japan. It would have been a bit more useful if they said who they were going to share that data with.

[Mulboyne]

It would have been a bit more useful if they said who they were going to share that data with.

A recent Japanese article indicated that they intend to share data with the US which is wonderful news.

[Ganma]

[Samurai_Jerk]

Another fingerprinting story

Fingerprint all Japanese, for safety's sake
Immigration's logic dictates that citizens should endure same biometric indignities

Was the US actually pressuring Japan to to do this or was it more a case of using US policy as an excuse for doing the same?

[Ganma]

Was the US actually pressuring Japan to to do this or was it more a case of using US policy as an excuse for doing the same?

My guess is that it was a bit of both plus a push from the biometrics company to sell their machines... no doubt some LDP member had an investment in that deal.

[Yokohammer]

I'm convinced it was mostly that the J-bureaucracy really wanted to reinstate fingerprinting.

They were reluctant to give it up in the first place, but were forced to relent under the pressure that was applied at the time. But they fucking hate being told what to do under any circumstances, and I'll bet they were utterly delighted when they saw an ostensibly justifiable way to bring it back in.

I'll admit to not actually knowing the details, but familiarity with the way things work around here tells me that the conspiracy version is plenty plausible.

[IparryU]

I'll admit to not actually knowing the details, but familiarity with the way things work around here tells me that the conspiracy version is plenty plausible.

ya, I am going with Ganma's theory... makes a fuckload of sense.

[Christoff]

wow, just like emerica