Fingerprint screening stops 846 (undesirables)

The Japan Times ^ | Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008 | MINORU MATSUTANI

[Ronin]

(Japanese) Justice minister praises contentious biometric scanning regime for catching undesirables

The new biometric system that fingerprints and photographs all incoming foreigners at airports and seaports prevented 846 undesirables from entering the country over the past year, the Immigration Bureau said Friday.

All were forced to leave Japan immediately, immigration official Aiko Oumi said.

The number accounts for 8.5 percent of about 10,000 foreigners whom immigration officers at airports and seaports expel every year after learning, through questioning and other measures, they had criminal records or were involved in illegal acts.

Despite complaints from foreigners who say mandatory fingerprinting, which resumed in November last year, makes them feel like they are being treated as criminals and violates their human rights, Justice Minister Eisuke Mori praised the system for helping to block illegal entries.

[Ronin]

As a resident of Japan I have nothing but praise for this system. Too many times crooks get booted out of Japan, buy new passports and are back in less than a couple of months. That is coming to a screeching halt.

As an added bonus, it makes it hugely more difficult for terrorists to contemplate using Japan for anything, and there have been persistent rumors for a long time that the Muzzies have been treating Tokyo and certain other Japanese cities as "safe house cities". Places where they can lay low until the head does down.

This is the way you control your borders if you have more brains than a trout.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I am a firm believer that, while we don’t want and shouldn’t tolerate “Big Brother” here, it should have been used full force for the occupation of Iraq.

That is, wherever our military went, it should have had special hand held devices that would take pictures and ten fingerprints, and even voice record adult men saying a phrase in Iraqi.

This information would be instantly uploaded to a US military database, and every Iraqi would be issued an ID card with just his picture on the front and a complex 2d barcode on the back with their data, including their name, place of birth, city of residence, religion, ethnic group, tribe, etc.

With this one thing, anyone without an ID would be detained, people not in their neighborhood would be questioned, and it would give a census, voting registration, ration and government benefits card, wants and warrants, and identify all foreign nationals.

The occupation would have lasted only half as long, and the government would be much more able to do its job.

[Pearls Before Swine]

“more brains than a trout”

It is easier to do in Japan, which is made up of islands, than in a country like ours with 4000 or more miles of land borders. Still, we aren’t doing jack here and should learn how to do better.

[struggle]

Let’s see if they can ever get the Chinese out of Kabukicho!

[Ronin]

That would be nice. And frankly speaking, I think that this system is more aimed at the Chinese than any other ethnic group. They don’t say it often, but they know that long-term and at every level, China is the biggest threat Japan faces.