Japan landing announcement: “Please take your free IC ID cards at the airport and always carry them.”
Japan enforces IDs on foreigners
TOKYO: “Travellers who are staying in Japan for medium- and long-term periods, please accept free IC cards at the airport and always carry them.”
An announcement like this may soon be heard on planes before they land in Japan.
This is because the government and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party are studying the introduction of a new information management system to prevent crimes committed by illegal foreign residents … more …
Yes folks! Get ready to be tagged with the Mark-of-Beast-666 IC card at Narita Airport of the Tokyo region.
As I covered in the Legal.3Yen.com report: Japanese Government to make Aliens Carry IC Cards you soon can expect a big welcome to Japan. It’s unsure whether Japan Immigration will use ear tags or wireless RF-capable cards that can be read at long distence.
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July 30th, 2005 at 7:45 am
Pure scare mongering. If someone is so dangerous as to need to be radio-tagged, then they shouldn’t be given a visa and shouldn’t be allowed into the country. During the SARS problem, I’m told that Singapore put cameras in the homes of some infected people — but they didn’t do it just to foreigners, and they didn’t do it without cause. If this story is true, then it is the same as electronic bracelets worn by criminals under house arrest. Treating people as criminals just because they aren’t Japanese (and remember, the Japanese insistence that we’re a race apart, different from Koreans and Chinese is pure, racist myth), would be one of the worst crimes against humanity of recent times and very close to apartheid. I’m Japanese, but if this every happens, I for one will be looking for a job elsewhere.
September 19th, 2005 at 11:09 am
“Similar Welcome” your country give to the foreigners.
October 14th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
One of the things I don’t like about Japan is the increasing crime rate, and you can guess where this crime comes from – imported criminals and criminal culture. I hope they get everyone to wear trackable technology, starting with foreigners is great.