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Fingerprinting and photographing of all foreigners starts November 20, 2007. what do u think??? read more about it on the link...

That's what helped catch that Canadian pedophile in Thailand...

ow i didnt know that. we dont have that kind off law in sweden though. but what about the pedofiles that are from thailand then?. hugs ito

I'm not too thrilled with giving up finger prints and my picture during my next trip. However, its not my country and I'm expected to obey their laws.

All that said, I wonder how it will go over if the US press starts to be critical of the policy? How will it affect tourism? I don't think you'll hear much about it until around Nov 20th. I'm just curious to see how it is regarded in the press over here.....

tbh, I kinda fall into the extremist opinion on this one (and for that I apologise) but I honestly think it is incredibly racist (gaijin are terrorists/criminals) to only take these measures for foreigners despite 2 important facts:

1) the already incredibly low crime rate here is still falling

2) there has NEVER been a terrorist attack on Japan by non-Japanese in the history of mankind

To me, it just feels like an excuse to chisel away at what little rights we gaijin still have...

Ahem, Hiroshima?

Anyway thats besides the point. I think most countries should have these measures incase a criminal tries to escape to countries without this security measures. USA has it but I have no problem with that, gave me a false sense of security at least haha. Does this mean america makes foreigners feel they have little rights as well? I think not.

That wasn't a terrorist attack...

I bet a citizen from an arab country would beg to differ...

Killing thousands of innocent people? If that isn't terrorism I don't know what is.

I don't want to get into politics but to me it was "Pay back" paid double in my opinion.

i personally haven't had to deal with this, but when all the japanese tourist come to hawaii, they have to get their finger prints taken and i believe that their photos are also taken.

raverboy