I won't be flying out and coming back to Japan any time soon, otherwise I would have tested it and report by myself. But could anyone with a mixed Japanese family direct experience of re-entering Japan tell what effectively happens at the gates, There are re-rentrant lines at Narita as reported in various sources. But do mixed families have to split and queue in different lines, or do re-entrant lines cater for mixed families as well? Any testimony among readers?
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8 comments:
Not as yet, but you can be sure I'll be on the lookout for families to talk to as I'm flying out and back in two weeks.
Don't know if it helps, but when I came back at the end of Nov. I entered through Haneda with my (Japanese) wife. I was separated into the reentry line while my wife was waved through the Japanese line. There were almost no people ahead of us, so I didn't care, but the non-reentry foreigner line was pretty long.
Archie, thanks for the input.
What's up with the crying, seriously. I am against the fingerprinting as much as anybody else, but this whole boo-hoo over not being able to stand in the same line as your Japanese wife and half-Japanese kid? Come on, you can't live without your wife and kid for 1 hour? Your kid will think you're a bad person because you have to stand in a different line? Fat chance! Get real and try focus on what's actually important.
Courageous Anonymous, there's no crying here. You are already wrong right from the start with your crooked interpretation of emotions you can't read. Your vision is blurred. Tell me what's important if you can. If you can't, go elsewhere.
Anonymous,
I'm fairly sure you won't be reading my reply here, since anonymous people with a complaint usually lash out then move on elsewhere. However:
What's at stake here is families being treated with dignity and respect. It isn't about being away from your family for an hour, it's about being separated by the government, in a public building, while returning to one's country of residence because all of a sudden the government has decreed that Mommy or Daddy is now deemed a terror suspect to be criminally fingerprinted each time they come home. That's a strong message they're sending to these families, and that's why it's such a big deal.
Incidentally, international families in Japan are made up of a Japanese spouse, a non-Japanese spouse living here on a long-term visa or PR and their Japanese children.
Folks, they're not saying you're a terrorist.
They're TRYING TO CATCH terrorists.
It's different.
Get over yourselves and your "sacred" privacy.
I've done nothing wrong so I really don't care if I have to wait a few extra minutes to get through customs.
A few years ago I ended up on a plane with a terrorist and unfortuanately they didn't figure it out until we were in the air.
Personally, I prefer the extra security.
I have nothing to hide.
And my Japanese wife understands.
After all, when we visit the USA she gets the same treatment, only without the extra courtesy of having staff who speak her native language.
There are quite a few hypocrites here, me thinks.
Me think you are totally disjointed. I hope you caught the terrorist on board and got free mileages for heroism. As for hypocrisy, I have a hard time figuring out where this alien stuff comes from. You sign with your real name? Congrat, me too. For an example of what biometrics can lead to, think about, for instance, social eugenism. It is already happening and documented, for instance in France. Soft ostracism is better than violent ostracism, sure, but it's ostracism all the same even if it doesn't hurt physically. Enjoy and watch more TV.
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