Last Friday, November 23, Japan put into effect its new Japan entry security rules. Travellers are required to go through the following procedure upon entering Japan:
o Submit passport to the immigration control officer.
o Listen to the immigration control officer explain the procedures and then place index fingers of both hands on a digital fingerprint reader. The fingerprint information will be read and stored electro-magnetically.
o Have a facial photograph taken, by way of a camera at the top of the digital fingerprint reader.
o Participate in a short interview by the immigration control officer.
On completion of the above procedures, the person wishing to enter Japan will receive his or her passport from the immigration control officer.
Except the finger-printing and facial photographing, the above security measures are already standard Japan entry requirements.
Here's a video summary and demonstration of the new security procedures.
Here's to view the Immigration Bureau of Japan Website for more about the changes.
I still wanna go to Japan!!! Wanna go?
ReplyDeleteOooooh, MAN, are the ex-pats here COMPLAINING about this!
ReplyDeleteThe funny thing is that immigration in the U.S. is still worse.
Slightly a PITA, and more so if the whole proceedure takes a long time.
ReplyDeleteImmigration anywhere in the world is hell :(
Like the stories from the previous post too. Thanks for sharing!
Being allied to a war-mongering U.S. they must have the maximum security available for a long time to come.
ReplyDeleteLB, wanna, wanna. When?
ReplyDeleteMM, my young Muslim colleagues usually took longer than normal at US immigration.
Furkids, welcome back! Yes, going through immigration is no fun especially in these times when so many things are being watched out for. Progress breeds threats?
Joe, wouldn't it be nice to have a borderless and warless world!
I'm a Permanent Resident of Japan, from the UK and have lived here since 1994. Japan has never been attacked by foreign terrorists and if such attack is likely it will happen overseas. Japan has been attacked by home grown terrorists. The introduction of fingerprinting is against the Japanese Constitution which affords protection to all peoples who are in Japan and not just Japanese nationals.
ReplyDeleteHi Zichi, thank you for dropping by and leaving a comment. Yes, all these measurements taken by a country is definitely for the protection of all.
ReplyDeleteYour profile is interesting but am not able to view your blog for some reason. Will certainly try again from another unit.