Comments on: Should Japan Shift to 10-Finger Immigration Screening?

By: Susovon

Susovon — Fri, 21 May 2010 07:16:41 +0000

plz tell me the price of –> 10-Finger Immigration Screening……………………….

By: Irene

Irene — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:08:40 +0000

Oh yeah true -_-;

By: The Overthinker

The Overthinker — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:56:33 +0000

“got so used to it that I don’t think twice about it, it became just a mundane thing.”

And that is how freedom dies….

By: Irene

Irene — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:19:28 +0000

well we do the same thing when we enter the U.S.. I got so used to it that I don’t think twice about it, it became just a mundane thing.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:09:58 +0000

So when do they start collecting DNA samples? Just get it over with already because that’s where they’re heading.
I’m from the US and this makes me furious. It’s disgusting having to watch my wife have to deal with this crap every time we enter the country.

By: Karisu

Karisu — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:11:35 +0000

“It’s important to the people of America and the people who visit America that they have a safe and law-abiding society.”

Well, it sure as hell isn’t important to this American. I’d like to see crap like this gone from America and Japan (as well as any other country).

By: Willie

Willie — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:47:01 +0000

Bad Wolf,

Osama bin Goldstein is not the reason.

The US wants all countries to do this. They exchange the information, or buy it from a data company. The Japanese contract was a low-cost deal in the Caribbean so there’s no control over what happens with the data.

The US wants the prints for US citizens very much, but they can’t just force it, not quite yet.

By: The Overthinker

The Overthinker — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:28:54 +0000

“Is Narita a crossroads of terrorist travel?”

The cops certainly seem to think so (hope so)….

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:05:05 +0000

I think that the US needs to stay out of other peoples business, All they do is try to make people/ countries do what the want them to do. I live next to the US and I can say I don’t like going there any more then I have to. I really hope that Japan tells the US to stick it. what they have now is just fine.

By: Tadashi

Tadashi — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:10:57 +0000

Wait, two fingerprints giving a false detection?
Maybe they should just upgrade the software to compare more points, since one fingerprint is already unique by 99,9%. Two persons with two same fingerprints should be near impossible and a photo helps to avoid even such a theoretical case.

By: moji

moji — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:45:46 +0000

gaiatsu gaiatsu!

By: Bad Wolf

Bad Wolf — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:27:06 +0000

I don’t get the US government and their paranoid obsession with forcing Japan to follow their lead. Is Japan a hotbed of terrorism? Are there sleeper cells lurking about in this country waiting to strike the US? Is Narita a crossroads of terrorist travel? Just what or whom do they expect to find in Japanese airports? Small dark Filipinas?

By: Irene

Irene — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:12:28 +0000

I can’t believe the national travel is becoming less and less strict in terms of security in the U.S. I’m not a U.S. resident btw. They don’t even check my ID when checking in (with e-tickets) or when boarding, and only once, when I enter the x-ray section. They don’t even seem to open our baggages at random any more either. Meanwhile, international security is becoming stricter.. hm interesting.

By: francois

francois — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:53:44 +0000

a friend of mine, tall blond French girl, scanned her 2 fingers at Narita immigration after coming back from her xmas holidays in France
the officer’s eyes grew wide, she looked on his computer screen and saw a mugshot of a small dark Filipino woman
they detained her for over an hour for questioning even though she didn’t look ANYTHING like that mugshot and was obviously the victim of a software mistake

By: The Overthinker

The Overthinker — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:23:39 +0000

All these people are political wimps. The only sensible solution is to ban all international travel, and in fact all domestic travel that involves public transportation systems, including roads. Restrict everyone’s movements to how far they can walk and we’ll stop the threat of terrorism dead. At least after we ban all public spaces and confine people to their homes. But it’s the only way to be truly safe, and we all want to be safe, right? Isn’t it worth it to save even one life?