Japan starts fingerprinting and photographing all in-coming foreigners

[thewayne]

Yep. That'll stop terrorism cold. Yeppers.

"It certainly doesn't make people who've been here for 30 or 40 years feel like they're even human beings basically," said businessman Terrie Lloyd, who has dual Australian and New Zealand citizenship and has been based in Japan for 24 years.

"There has not been a single incident of foreign terrorism in Japan, and there have been plenty of Japanese terrorists," he said.

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"It certainly doesn't make people who've been here for 30 or 40 years feel like they're even human beings basically," said businessman Terrie Lloyd, who has dual Australian and New Zealand citizenship and has been based in Japan for 24 years.

"There has not been a single incident of foreign terrorism in Japan, and there have been plenty of Japanese terrorists," he said.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/05/17/fingerprints-japan.html

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/anger-as-japan-moves-to-fingerprint-foreigners/2007/10/26/1192941320246.html

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/0436218

Comments

[deborak]

My smartass response to this is *so* politically incorrect I dare not speak its name.
Cues up an OMD song . . .