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Japan: Fingerprinting visitors

Posted 18 June 2007 5:07 GMT

Debito reports that Japan immigration will adopt a new policy in November 2007 for fingerprinting and photographing all foreigner visitors to Japan: Except that as well as being kinda weird and laughably amusing, it’s deadly serious about targeting foreigners as potential terrorists.

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Written byOiwan Lam

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