Here is a tract you may consider using to express your disagreement at large, be it the whole biometric filing of foreigners only or the discrimination toward foreign residents of Japan. The interpretation is yours as the method. This was already discussed in a previous post but here are possible ways to use it.
• Pass a copy together with your passport at the gate. The staff will probably give it back to you and it's OK. There are still ways to reuse it before leaving the port of entry.
• When coming back in family discuss together before arrival and decide on the opportunity that each member slip a copy with his/her own passport.
• Print several copies before boarding the plane or ship back to Japan and neatly put a stack of copies at the counters before after passport control where Japanese nationals may stop to fill import tax or other paper.
• Before leaving the airport, visit the washrooms and neatly paste a copy inside the door using easy to scrap tape. Making things cleanly is important.
• If you leave the airport by limousine bus or train, why not stash a copy inside the onboard magazine.
How you can help:
- Be creative: come with your own suggestions on how to spread the tract efficiently
- Make suggestions on how to make the tract content better. Also suggest alternative versions
- Write a short testimonial about your entering or coming back home in Japan using the tract
- Take a picture of the tract set in the airport and send it to the blog with a comment or article
- Refer to this post in your blog, or write a post in your blog and make the tract available yourself
- Download the file and send it attached to friends and family, asking them to pass it along as well
14 comments:
Excellent. I put out a call for someone to make this months ago.
I would be more likely to use this is the real reason that I oppose it was listed:
I oppose the fingerprinting system because it is not extended to every person. If the purpose is to reduce crime, then all japanese should be fingerprinted as well as all foreigners.
The purpose is, officialy, not to reduce crime, but to avoid terrorism.
I wish I had this two hours ago! I have just come back and had to go through the humiliation of having my fingerprints scanned.
Thanks so much for this! I propose strategically placing a bunch at the nyukoku kanri-kyoku to start!
Maybe I'm being too paranoid, but we don't know what they do with those fingerprints. What if they blame you of something you haven't done? I wouldn't feel comfortable knowing that they have all my data as if I was a criminal! I'm a decent person! They have criminals in Japan and they don't do a thing about it!
First off- Great job.
My 2 yen...
Though reading between the lines this shows how we really love this country, I would spell it out. Hantai! gets people's attention, but only the same way as the Uyoku sound trucks do. A lot of Japanese people just "don't get" why we're not happy with this.
We need to show that we love and respect Japan first- That's why we're hantai.
-Bob S.
I agree with Yoshiie.
Thank you. I like the wording and economy of the English portion (the only part I can read, unfortunately.)
I will be sure to use the strategies when I use the airport next, but now I want to think about ways to post it around town.
This is a great idea! Thank you!
To some extent, I can understand taking visitors' biometric data or fingerprints because that country knows nothing about a visitor. How effective this will be in preventing crimes or terrorism is another matter.
What really, REALLY angers me is that they are extending this treatment to permanent residents and people who they already have so much data on. And the US military are exempt? How does this work? Aren't they the ones with people trained to kill, and have access to weapons? Hmm..
Let the tract distribution begin!
---- forwarded message ----
The head of Accenture Japan is Chikatomo Hodo aka Chikatomo K. Hodo:
( http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/COLUMN/20060724/244073/ )
程 近智（ほど・ちかとも）氏 1960年7月31日生まれ。神奈川県出身。82年に米スタンフォード大学工学部を卒業し，アクセンチュアに入社。91年に米コロンビア大学経営大学院でMBAを取得。95年にパートナーに就任。その後，eコマース推進コアチームリーダー，ビジネス・ローンチ・センター長を経て2000年に戦略グループ統括パートナー。01年に通信・ハイテク本部通信業統括パートナーを兼務，03年に通信・ハイテク本部統括本部長。05年9月に代表取締役，06年 4月に代表取締役社長に就任した。現在も通信・ハイテク本部統括本部長を兼務する。趣味は温泉旅行，史跡巡り，ゴルフ。
【アクセンチュア】
設立 ： 1995年12月
資本金 ： 非公開
売上高 ： 非公開
従業員数 ： 約2500人（2006年2月時点）
事業概要 ：コンサルティング最大手。経営だけでなく，情報システムやアウトソーシング分野にも強みを持つ。全世界で約13万人の人材を抱える。NGNの構築， MVNO（仮想移動体通信事業者）のビジネスやシステム面を支援するサービスなども手がけ，世界の主要な通信事業者とパイプを持つ。
And he may be reached at Chikatomo.Hodo@accenture.com
( http://www.accenture.com/NR/rdonlyres/01C0AAF4-0863-4B00-A40C-A1CF849E7A00/0/A4_NeweCommerceFormsPoV.pdf )
---- end of message ----
Why not let him know how much we all appreciate Accenture's quality work on the GOJ biometric systems?
Great work. I will be spreading the message as much as I can. I will be "maintaing the rage" as long as they force this on us.
The only flaw is that you aren't separated from your family at the check-point. They are free to go with you through the normal "visitors" line or the automatic/special reentry lanes at NRT.
McRap. Please consider the below as a victory.
"And the US military are exempt? How does this work? Aren't they the ones with people trained to kill, and have access to weapons? Hmm.." These young men and women(like any country throwing their troops in harms way) are just doing a job they swore to. Respect that. Yes, if the troops wanted to do something they could and probably do it quite well. The reason they probably won this battle is because all troops have their Biometrics along with DNA recorded in all major databases. If you find a print or DNA, you crossed it with any FBI, CIA or Homeland Security Database they would match. I am sure that is one reason.
Fight the fight but leave the troops alone. They are just doing a job they swore to uphold.
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