16.11.07

Re-Entry Japan is looking for contributors

Re-Entry Japan - Informing and thinking about biometric controls at entry gatepoints in Japan

Re-Entry Japan is a collaborative and multilingual blog with the ambition to inform, think and help thinking about the new biometrics control when entering Japan that will be implemented on November 20. This new control clearly segregates Japanese nationals and Foreigners. We are against this state segregation.

Contributions can be in written, visual or audio forms

Written contributions may be essays, reflexions or testimonies. These will be well constructed, argumented, dialectical excluding diatribe, and an overdose of emotion (and it won't be easy to control).

Visual contributions are open to imagination of authors: numerical posters, tracts, caricatures, pictures, video, interviews of people, of yourself using your own PC. Pictures and video are forbidden in passport control areas that are monitored by camera. But modern technologies may help those who want to take risks. an mp3 recorder hanging from the neck may be used for stealth audio recording.

Contributions may be multilingual and their authors are invited to accept and see their real names appear in the blog.

We also invite anyone reading this text with connexions to intellectuals, university professors and journalists to spread this article around and incite personalities to contribute.

Re-Entry Japan - Informing and thinking about biometric controls at entry gatepoints in Japan

Re-Entry Japan est un blog collaboratif multilingue qui a pour ambition d'informer, de réfléchir et faire réfléchir au sujet du contrôle biométrique qui entre en vigueur au Japon le 20 novembre et applique une ségrégation de traitement entre Japonais et Etrangers. Nous critiquons cette ségrégation étatique.

Les contributions peuvent être écrites, visuelles ou audio.

Les écrits peuvent être des essais, réflexions ou témoignages construits, argumentés, dialectiques sans être virulents, sans trop glisser dans l'émotionnel (ce n'est pas facile).

Les contributions visuelles sont ouvertes à l'imagination de leurs auteurs, posters ou tracts numérisés, caricatures, photographies, vidéo, interviews d'autres ou de soi-même avec son propre ordinateur. Il est interdit de filmer ou photographier dans les zones de contrôle des passeports qui sont munies de caméras. Les technologies modernes permettent aussi parfois de prendre des risques. Idem pour les enregistreurs mp3 au cou qui peuvent enregistrer pour certains avec discrétion.

Les contribution écrites peuvent être multilingues. Les auteurs sont invités à accepter de voir leur vrai nom indiqué dans le blog.

Nous invitons aussi les lecteurs de ce texte qui ont des relations dans les milieux intellectuels, universitaires et journalistiques de faire circuler ce texte et d'inciter des personalités à contribuer.

Lionel Dersot

Re-Entry Japan

Collaborateur-auteur

6 comments:

ターナー said...

Be happy to submit my experience, but I won't be passing through until December.

Jon Allen said...

couple of good articles in the Japan Times today:
An anonymous Japanese official says:
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20071120a1.html

"Japan steps back slightly on the world stage and graciously allows some other countries the chance to shine"

'Fingerprint Day' adds insult to injury for Japan's foreign community"

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20071120zg.html

Kazu Fan said...

I think you should link to this hilarious site:

http://fakekazu.wordpress.com/

Remember, the Japanese 'talent', Kazutomo Miyamoto, who said that we should fingerprint foreigners to make Japan safer.

This is his 'fake' blog and it's very very funny. Eventually, with enough publicity this blog will come to the real Kazutomo Miyamoto, and it could make some waves.

When the issue starts to embarrass people like him, and you have situations like the F1 teams being fingerprinted then Japanese will pay attention. Marches, foreigner's blogs etc. are something that will not make an impact, I'm afraid.

It's marketing. Or as Fake Kazu says: "compliance and Louis Vuitton Bags"

Anonymous said...

Actually someone with some Japanese skills should edit his (Kazutomo Miyamoto) Japanese Wikipedia page to mention this controversy.

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%AE%E6%9C%AC%E5%92%8C%E7%9F%A5

It should be done tactfully, and politely, but it should certainly be mentioned.

Anonymous said...

Hi there,

I am an Italian native speaker, I would like to contribute some translations but I can't work out how to get in touch.

Cheers

LD said...

Anonymous inItalian, thanks. You can contact me at ldersot@gmail.com