95 foreigners refused entry into Japan since revised immigration law
Wednesday, December 26, 2007 at 05:00 EST
TOKYO — A total of 95 foreigners were refused entry into Japan in one month after Japan began fingerprinting and photographing foreign nationals at airports and seaports nationwide, the Justice Ministry said Tuesday. According to the Immigration Bureau, the number of foreign nationals who came to Japan totaled about 700,000 since the enforcement on Nov 20 of a revised immigration law.
Of the 700,000, Japan refused entry to 95 and forced them to leave, some of them because their fingerprints matched those who were deported in the past. The number of foreigners who applied to use an automated gate that allows them to leave and enter the country by having their pre-registered fingerprints checked was 6,834, the ministry said.
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Comment: As usual, Kyodo News or the powers above, or both, are releasing partial, holed like a Swiss cheese bits of information generating instant mild stupor in the readers's mind - or what is left of it - when trying and make sense of all this. No background contextual facts and figures, no clues about anything. 95 foreigners were caught and I feel safer for this. How many yakuza safely back from business trips?
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And I'm still dying to know, what is the average number of people refused or denied entry into Japan by customs before this wonderful finger print all foreigners--no matter how long they have lived here--law came into effect? I have a feeling people were being caught for trying to re-enter after previously having been deported and for other similar reasons than being terrorists before this law went into effect. How many TERRORISTS have they caught? How many foreigners trying to smuggle in some horrid biological disease? Because that is why we are being finger printed, right? We are potential terrorists and we are disease carriers right? Unlike ethnic Japanese of course.
Laura
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