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Cancel your trip to Japan until they restore your civil liberties.
Fingerprinted foreigners now will have the distinction of having the same status as former Korean slaves.


* Japan is now fingerprinting all foreigners

Everyone foreign  will have their fingerprints and photo taken when they come into Japan.  This includes visa holders and permanent residents, but not including those foreigners
with "special status": people born here but whose ancestry is Korean. Those traveling on diplomatic passports are also exempt.

This will happen every time you come in, unless you register for the special fast-screening program, which only works at Narita; they will keep you on file.

As one friend pointed out, this means that Japan will have prints and photos of every CIA agent who comes and goes using a regular blue passport -- the ones who prefer not to be recognized.

As expected, the Japan Times, which is a bit more of a foreigners' mouthpiece, is more outraged than the Daily Yomiuri, but both featured it above the fold and ran several articles.  One article was subtitled something to the effect of "no glitches", then the second paragraph described the glitches.


[NATIONAL NEWS]
Foreign arrivals get biometric scan
Japan begins fingerprinting and photographing foreigners arriving in the
country under a revised immigration law to keep terrorists out, drawing
criticism from rights groups and foreign residents that their data might
be abused.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20071121a1.html

[NATIONAL NEWS]
Rally targets Justice Ministry
MASAMI ITO
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20071121a2.html

[NATIONAL NEWS]
Kansai smooth; other areas suffer glitches
ERIC JOHNSTON
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20071121a4.html

[LIFE IN JAPAN]
Starting today, 'gaijin' formally known as prints
GRAEME JARVIE
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/fl20071120a1.html

[LIFE IN JAPAN]
Security cameras: Ensuring safety or invading privacy?
JACKIE HOFFART
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/fl20071120vf.html

[LIFE IN JAPAN]
Watching them watching us
MICHAEL HASSETT
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/fl20071120zg.html

[BUSINESS NEWS]
Michelin's first Tokyo guide names eight 3-star eateries
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nb20071120n1.html

[NATIONAL NEWS]
67 civic groups protest against screening system
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20071120a9.html

[NATIONAL NEWS]
Go home whalers, says N.Z.'s Clark
New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark lashes out at Japan's whaling
program, saying its fleet should have stayed home rather than operate
under the "deceptive" guise of a scientific operation.
 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20071120a3.html

[NATIONAL NEWS]
U.S. envoys involved in '60s secret nuke arms pact
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20071121f2.html

[NATIONAL NEWS]
USIS role revealed in Japan's tilt toward West
HIROKI SUGITA
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20071121f1.html

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20071121TDY01303.htm

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20071122TDY03103.htm

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20071121TDY02308.htm

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20071121TDY02309.htm

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Friday, November 23, 2007 8:19:52 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)    Disclaimer  |  Comments [2]  |  Related posts:
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Sunday, November 25, 2007 4:46:12 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
As an advisory member of Privacy International, I'd like to inform here that Privacy International sent a letter below to Japan's Ministry of Justice which manages immigration process on Nov 19, regarding to recent start of fingerprint scanning and digitized facial picture taking at the immigration. 68 organizations from 30 countries endorsed this letter reflected the issue was containing much broader problems, not just for foreigners visiting or living in Japan.

BTW if you compare the US-VISIT and the Japanese system, you would notice the similarity of both and would wonder who did system intergration.

Gohsuke Takama
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007 2:41:35 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
Thanks for this learning !
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