| # | Name | Comments |
|---|
| 2651 | ANDRES ZAMORA | I DON'T LIKE THIS SISTEM, SEEN LIKE DISCRIMINATION, I HAD A GOOD IMAGE OF JAPAN, BUT NOW CHANGE MY MAIN. |
| 2652 | Su M. Yasui | I stronglly request the government of Japan to stop the reestablishment of fingerprinting for all foreigners entering Japan - including residents. |
| 2653 | Nicholas Turner | There is no practical need for this legislation - the only terrorist attacks in Japan have been committed by Japanese citizens - not by foreigners.
Human rights are always the first casualty when governments want to demonstrate they are "doing something" about terrorism. This is all about appearing to be strong, appealing to the conservative vote. As soon as the media shows any sign of independent thought, without the sensationalist, over-emotive presentation of news, there may be a chance for Japanese citizens to make real, informed democratic decisions. News is not entertainment - news is presenting the facts in an unbiased way. |
| 2654 | russ | i respect japan country... but now i hate the system. they dont have a heart |
| 2655 | Anonymous | |
| 2656 | Anonymous | I never agree that Japanese government force to let the foreigners to fingerprint. |
| 2657 | Anonymous | I don't agree with the fact that foreigners will be treated like criminals at the airport. |
| 2658 | Edward O'Brien | I am married to a Japanese National, we have a son (a Japanese national) and my wife is now pregnant with our second child. I have never broken Japanese law, I pay taxes, and I am a respected member of my local community. I would like someone to explain to my 2 year old son why daddy has leave him to be fingerprinted and photographed like a criminal 3 days before Christmas. |
| 2659 | William Burton | |
| 2660 | Anonymous | i think the finger printing scheme needs to be kept, and i would go as far as to say this should be the law in all countries. |
| 2661 | samantha noone | |
| 2662 | Etienne Marceau | |
| 2663 | Anonymous | |
| 2664 | Jean-Christophe Helary | |
| 2665 | Michael Jones | |
| 2666 | Clem | I don't agree with all that.
Je ne suis pas d'accord avec tout ça.
Damit bin ich gar nicht einverstanden. |
| 2667 | Gareth Carroll | I think it is outrageous that I am to be treated the same as any visitor, when I live here, am married to a Japanese and pay Japanese taxes. I also think it is outrageous that only visitors will be fingerprinted. |
| 2668 | Anonymous | Xenophobic much? |
| 2669 | Takiguchi Kiyoei | |
| 2670 | Nicole White | |
| 2671 | Andrea | |
| 2672 | Monica Dorn | If a fingerprinting/photograph system is to be utilized at all, it is highly unfair to those foreign Permanent Residents and spouses of Japanese, people who have been abiding by Japanese laws and been faithful to the Japanese government for long periods of time. Furthermore, the major inconvenience of making foreigners and permanent residents repeat this process for every single re-entry at airports outside of Narita shows a horrible and inconsiderate lack of planning. |
| 2673 | Anonymous | Permanent residents and foreigners married to Japanese nationals should NOT have to have their personal and private details scanned and checked every time they enter Japan. There should definitely be a seperate queue for these foreigners, if not if just shows discrimination on the part of the Japanese government. Many people are enraged by this "preventative terrorism" method. |
| 2674 | Anonymous | テロ防止にはまったくならない。 |
| 2675 | Glenda Rode-Bramanis | I disagree with visitors to Japan being treated like criminals and having their fingerprints taken. Law abiding citizens of other countries should be treated with equal courtesy to Japanese citizens. I am definitely against fingerprinting foreign visitors to Japan. |
| 2676 | takanori yamamoto | |
| 2677 | Tadakatsu Ishiga | |
| 2678 | Jeny | Bad idea |
| 2679 | Anonymous | |
| 2680 | Anonymous | |
| 2681 | Anonymous | Politicians make the whole world difficult to live in, label the people as hazardous, and make the people suspicious of each other. |
| 2682 | Bando Nobuhiro | When are we good enough to do this? |
| 2683 | Julien KOENIG | C'est une mesure injuste et inutile. Ca n'empechera pas les criminels de perpetrer leurs crimes, ca ne permettra pas de les retrouver plus facilement. Par contre, c'est la porte ouverte aux erreurs et aux atteintes a la vie prive. Meme apres reflection, je ne parviens meme pas a voir un seul element positif. |
| 2684 | unhappy gaijin | Ha! Japan...laughable man! As I watch the news here every morning and see yet another group of spotty old Japanese CEOs and contractors bowing their heads in apology for the billions they've stolen from innocent citizens it makes me wonder how this country has gotten as far as it has. Every politician corrupt...nobody guilty until they're actually caught...a yakuza on every corner. Oh, but we must keep the place safe and fingerprint all these dirty foreigners coming in...give me a break. Biggest crock of shit I've ever heard. This country is rotting from the inside my Japanese law-making friends...and ain't no biometric measures gonna save the place. A sad, sad state of affairs indeed... |
| 2685 | Manabu KANAI | |
| 2686 | Kennnis | No need for fingerprinting foreigners, there can't be many cases of foreigners commiting crimes in Japan ! We first went to Japan in 1966 for 9 years and revisited in 2007. This regulation would certainly make us think about returning. |
| 2687 | Naofumi Yoshida | Japnese Goverment does not understand what they (and us) lose and its worth! |
| 2688 | Donna Louise Close | It was humiliating being "processed" like a criminal coming into Japan last week. My husband is Japanese. He had to wait about 20 minutes for me to get through the line, and he couldn't understand why I had taken so long.
For Japan, I think that having an "alien" registration card is already a good way of keeping track of the HONEST people coming to live/work in Japan. I don't like being discriminated in that way (most Japanese are extremely surprised when they find out that foreigners have to have them), but I understand that in some waysJapan is still afraid of the outside world.
The very small number who ruin it all for us, the DISHONEST people, who come to Japan to hurt this country and its people will go to extra measures now to avoid giving their identification. And not just those people coming in, but the dishonest Japanese citizens helping them to come.
I am only 25 years old. I have no criminal record, not even a traffic fine. I have had police background checks in my own country, not because I was suspected of anything but in order to become a registered teacher; (even for that they did not need my photograph or fingerprints).
Foreigners entering my country are not required to be fingerprinted or photographed. They do not even have a "foreigner" card, like the Japanese government requests of foreigners in Japan. (If they need to show ID and they don't have it on their person, they are given time to produce it - accompanied home if necessary.) Everyone is treated as fairly as possible; treated as "innocent until proven guilty".
Why don't you look at some governments other than the United States for examples of how they process the huge amounts of foreigner/immigrants coming into their country? e.g., compulsory thorough customs declaration forms for ALL incoming people, Japanese and non-Japanese; tougher background checks for visa requirements - a criminal history check from the police would be good. (I've never had to get one done for a Japanese visa, but my husband had to get one for a visa to my country). |
| 2689 | Colin Walker | This is simply wrong. |
| 2690 | Anonymous | |
| 2691 | Noriyuki Takagawa | Japanese US-Visit, No way! |
| 2692 | Yasuhisa Ikeda | |
| 2693 | kudo Kyoko | |
| 2694 | world citizen | WHY ?? |
| 2695 | Dustin Keeton | |
| 2696 | Stephen Searle | I cannot add anything meaningful to the excellent comments already provided by others. My hope is that the Japanese bureaucracy will soon retract this ill-conceived program. |
| 2697 | Anonymous | |
| 2698 | FUJIBAYASHI Michio | |
| 2699 | Anonymous | |
| 2700 | Adrian Stones | |