New official policy: more body searches for foreigners

[TennoChinko]

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120914a7.html

Friday, Sep. 14, 2012

Japan to start random body searches at airports in October
Kyodo

The transport ministry said Thursday it will start conducting random body searches on international passengers at 29 airports across the country in October to prevent explosives from slipping through metal detectors.

At present, body searches are only performed on passengers who set off metal detectors before boarding, the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry. The ministry did not elaborate on how the body searches would be carried out or by whom.

The ministry is taking the step because terrorist plots involving the use of liquid or solid explosives have been reported in Britain and the United States. It did not say if it was referring to recent events.

The International Civil Aviation Organization recommends that countries conduct random contact inspections or full-body scans on passengers to enhance security.

I can only assume that by conducting more random body searches on international passengers, they mean non-Japanese looking ones. North Korean terrorists must be thanking their Kimchi Gods for this glorious policy. Death to America and snivelling Japanese allies!!

[Coligny]

Thanks Reagan, Bush 1 and Bush 2... You made the world a better shithole...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Can someone tell me again how many foreigners have launched airport massacres killing 26 and injuring in Japan before?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lod_Airport_massacre

[yanpa]

I can only assume that by conducting more random body searches on international passengers, they mean non-Japanese looking ones.

Being naive and innocent, I interpreted "international passengers" to mean "passengers on international flights" (as opposed to domestic flights).

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I can only assume that by conducting more random body searches on international passengers, they mean non-Japanese looking ones.

Being naive and innocent, I interpreted "international passengers" to mean "passengers on international flights" (as opposed to domestic flights).

Me, too, but I just wanted to remind people that while our hosts may provide us with a safety cuntry, they don't necessarily always provide us with safety cunts...

[Coligny]

Me, too, but I just wanted to remind people that while our hosts may provide us with a safety cuntry, they don't necessarily always provide us with safety cunts...

A country where every morning start with checking the Ntl Meteo website for earthquake, volcano activity, lanslides, typhoon, tsunamis and radioactiv release levels DO NOT QUALIFY AS "SAFE COUNTRY".

FUCK YOU JAPAN

[Samurai_Jerk]

SAFE SAFETY COUNTRY

I know I shouldn't confuse the frog like this but ....

FTFY

[Coligny]

lul whut ?

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[legion]

well I know my farts s,ell like sarin .......

[Coligny]

d00d, that's nothing... i managed to make my cat vomit during one of our dutch ovenning challenge...

[wuchan]

d00d, that's nothing... i managed to make my cat vomit during one of our dutch ovenning challenge...

french cheese......

[wuchan]

beyond cheese jokes.....


I would contribute a bit of the war fund to a class action lawsuit against the J-gov for violating article 14.

[yanpa]

Err, why?

[legion]

The ministry is taking the step because terrorist plots involving the use of liquid or solid explosives have been reported in Britain and the United States. It did not say if it was referring to recent events.

Kind of sad that the Japanese want to be associated with these countries, they still haven't got over their 20th century inferiority complex.

[gaijinpunch]

I will say this which is semi on the topic. Hoping I don't jinx myself, but every time I come into this cuntry via Narita, I get far less hassle at customs than any of the J-peeps.

[legion]

You don't look like a mule

I think the real reason for this policy is they have a serious drugs problem, but don't like to admit to it in public.

[Coligny]

You don't look like a mule

I think the real reason for this policy is they have a serious drugs problem, but don't like to admit to it in public.

seems this policy targets outbound passengers... and I dun't think japan is a major narcotics exporter...

[legion]

If that's the case considering the track record of random loonies with knives in this country they might be onto something.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I think the real reason for this policy is they have a serious drugs problem, but don't like to admit to it in public.

Nah. Think about how frequently you see junkies on the streets in the West and look at here. If a cuntry does have a serious drug problem, it's hard to hide.

[matsuki]

Random search by Japanese on foreigners...this will not end well

[Coligny]

The ministry is taking the step because terrorist plots involving the use of liquid or solid explosives have been reported in Britain and the United States. It did not say if it was referring to recent events.

The worst is that nobody is calling their bullshit anymore. They can make up whatever they want and say "because fuck you" and everything will be ok...

Thank W, you've done so much for freedom... that you make the spanish inquisition looks fun...

[legion]

I think the real reason for this policy is they have a serious drugs problem, but don't like to admit to it in public.

Nah. Think about how frequently you see junkies on the streets in the West and look at here. If a cuntry does have a serious drug problem, it's hard to hide.

shabu

[Samurai_Jerk]

I think the real reason for this policy is they have a serious drugs problem, but don't like to admit to it in public.

Nah. Think about how frequently you see junkies on the streets in the West and look at here. If a cuntry does have a serious drug problem, it's hard to hide.

shabu

Certainly there are some issues and I have no doubt that the Japanese government downplays the problem to a an extent, but I have to agree with SDH that the lack of junkies in the street and the low rate of the kind of crimes associated with wide-spread abuse would indicate the problem here is not as bad as it is in a lot of other places.

[legion]

not as bad as Mexico

but one of my pet theories is some of these random stabbings are brought on by speed psychosis

[Coligny]

not as bad as Mexico

but one of my pet theories is some of these random stabbings are brought on by speed psychosis

Lack of padded cells...