Today, I will write a response to the article "Not so welcome to Japan any longer" ,written by Kevin Rafferty.
The article is about the system starts from November 20th, fingerprinting and photographing all foreigners who enter, re-enter, and even people who have permanent spouse or working visa in Japan, and Rafferty says it is very discriminative.
There was a response (Fingerprint all Japanese visitors) which said that not only foreigners but also Japanese should be fingerprinted.
Idea of examining only foreigners, carefully seems to have bias that terrorists should be foreigners not Japanese.
Since there is a fixed image in Japanese peoples' mind toward some foreigners.
Also there was an insist that Japanese should also be fingerprinted and photographed.
This is good idea, but the system is not to discriminate against someone, or not done because others target you, but to prevent crime to happen as much as possible.
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Ayaka, I am happy to read your response about fingerprinting foreigners who enter Japan, as well as others that you posted related to Japan Times articles.
I wonder if the "fixed image" of Japanese people comes from the long periods of Japan's isolation in past history, and has become a part of Japanese culture.
I notice that some Americans, too, do not like the idea of the US government fingerprinting all foreigners who visit America. It isn't certain, so far, that such action will actually prevent crime.
I am from Hawaii and teach oral communications at Osaka Gakuin University.
Thank you for your comments.
Aloha,
-Bert sensei
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