All your fingerprints are belong to us
November 20th is getting closer, and with it the time when all foreigners entering Japan (with some special exceptions) will be fingerprinted and possibly photographed too, as part of the welcome to the country. Still not entirely sure what these machines will be like yet as the only video clip of it to be shown has been in Japanese, made for the Japanese people. Great work there, for a machine that will be testing foreigners!
Just wondered what everyone’s opinions on this system is. The government, of course, is using the protection from terror reasoning (if in doubt, say it’s to protect against terrorists). This is, of course, if we assume that all terrorists are non-Japanese. Errr… except Ikuo Harashi, Kenichi Hirose, Toru Toyoda, Masato Yokoyama and Yasuo Hayashi, who orchestrated the Tokyo subway sarin gas attacks, and many other events and people. Also, if anyone can forge a Japanese passport then they can get into the country without being fingerprinted at all. Is anyone seeing, as I do, a couple of flaws that might be in their plan?
The story is already starting to get negative publicity in other countries and it’s hardly going to entice people to visit Japan. Looks like the Japan National Tourist Organization are going to have their work cut out, especially as they are just embarking on a plan to get more British tourists travelling to Japan.
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