Japan Rant

From next month all foreigners entering Japan and those already living there will need to be fingerprinted. The move is to prevent terrorism in the country even though to date there has never been a terrorist act committed in Japan by a foreigner.

“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.

A few years ago you needed to have your fingerprints taken when you registered for your Alien registration card, but the practice was later stopped.

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