Japan detains 5 with new fingerprint entry checks

Reuters ^ | 11/21/07

[TigerLikesRooster]

I heard that, if refused, the Japanese authorities force foreigners to provide fingerprints at "detention center."

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[thefactor]

women and minorities hardest hit. bush’s fault. i’m sure these 5 guys are amish.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Yes, more or less.

It is their country. I guess they can do what they want.

I have no problem following the law.

I guess libs, and crybabies, and North Korean agents, and Islamofascists, and overstaying Filipinas might have a problem with it.

Quite frankly, Japan does not need them, and many of us old timers in the foreign community in Japan don't want them here in the first place, either, as they spoil it for the rest of us legitimate types.

If only the USA could start filtering out the foreign undesirables upon US entry, and get rid of the millions of undesirables there already deeply ensconsed and going nowhere (if they can help it).

[DTogo]

If only Bush had the kintama to do this at America's borders and ports of entry!

Bah, the Big Business/Open Borders Lobbies don't want no stinkin' borders anyhoo...

日本＊ピング＊ (kono risuto ni hairitai ka detai wo shirasete kudasai : let me know if you want on or off this list)

[Ronin]

As a long-term resident of Japan I can say that I am absolutely delighted with the new system and only wish it was in place earlier.

Too many times the petty crooks that are caught and deported simply buy a new passport under a different name and come right back.

This will put a stop to that.

Good!!!

[darkwing104]

Leave it to the Japanese to show us how it done. Good on them.

[Gay State Conservative]

Japan’s a sovereign nation that has the right to regulate the inward movement of aliens across her borders in any way they wish.Given that nobody but Japanese citizens have an intrinsic right to enter Japan aliens have two choices....live with the regulations or cross Japan off their “to visit” list.

[VOA]

“It refused to give any details of the five people or say which
countries they came from. “

Sounds like Brian De Palma should have done his movie “Redacted”
on this situation.
With “Engrish” subtitles!

It certainly would do better business than his current “Redacted”!

http://www.engrish.com

[AmericanInTokyo]

My take is that if you are doing nothing wrong, then you have nothing to fear.

It is only the trouble makers that are going to get pissed off about this.

Good.

Less of them here is very desirable for me--and almost every Japanese I talk to. There are very few bleeding heart Japanese when it comes the issue of how to handle <<不法滞在者>> a.k.a. illegal aliens or otherwise foriegners who are here only to cause trouble and not contribute something to Japan under it's laws.

This should clean up things a bit and make it easier for us legal residents.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

OK, so does this mean that the Japanese then have a fingerprint file on every individual coming into the country or do they scan and dump if there’s no match?

[TigerLikesRooster]

A man living in Japan takes part in a protest against fingerprinting foreigners entering Japan in front of Japan's Justice Ministry in Tokyo November 20, 2007. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao

Ana Galvez, an Argentinean living in Japan, holds up a placard during a demonstration against fingerprinting foreigners entering Japan in front of Japan's Justice Ministry in Tokyo November 20, 2007. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao

[sushiman]

I have been in Japan for 22 years .I have a permanent resident visa . They already have my photo and fingerprints for my alien registration card .Foreigners with permanent resident visas should be exempt ,no ?

[Orange1998]

22 years is a long time. Do you still have to file income in each country after so long.

[monkeycard]

Sounds good to me.

[AmericanInTokyo]

They dont look like particularly happy people with life in general, to begin with....

[dennisw]

I heard that, if refused, the Japanese authorities force foreigners to provide fingerprints at "detention center."

LOL Gotta love the Japanese  We should copy them on this. I think one thumb print is sufficient to keep out the riff raff

[dennisw]

They dont look like particularly happy people with life in general, to begin with....

These look like Gaijin artistes. But you know where Japanese hippies and musicians go? Boston. It's full of long haired Japanese youth many with a few dyed hair locks. They can do their thing in America

[jbp1]

Yes, we need that.

At the international airports, at the canuck and mexican borders, and with all the border patrol agents also.

snag em and bag em

[AmericanInTokyo]

As much as I am a regular loudmouth here on FR about "illegal alien this", "illegal immigration that", I would be an abject hypocrite were I to turnaround and complain here about new Japanese entry regulations and procedures that effect me, on the issue of tightening up their own borders.

I am a guest here in Japan, no matter how long it has been or will be.

Not forever.

I am an American first.

But I have to follow the program.

I never forget that.