Fingerprint scheme exposes xenophobic, short-sighted trend in government As Japan sinks into elderly obsolescence and threatens […]
Japan has started a new system obligating foreigners entering the country to provide their fingerprints and […]
A controversy over fingerprinting foreigners IN 1641 Japan’s shogunate designated an artificial island in Nagasaki harbour […]
Dozens of protesters, both foreign and Japanese, gathered outside the Justice Ministry on Tuesday to voice […]
The Justice Ministry has instructed regional immigration bureaus to forcibly take fingerprints from foreigners who refuse […]
Protestors inflated a 3-meter-high yellow hand with an extended forefinger and thrust it toward the Justice […]
‘Fingerprint Day’ adds insult to injury for Japan’s foreign community From July 3 to 11, 2005, […]
Today sees the introduction of a law requiring the majority of foreigners entering Japan to be […]
In the good old days, very few Japanese knew about Alien Registration Cards ? you know, […]
Having arrived in Tokyo from Seoul about a year ago, Il Yeong Eun, like many foreigners […]

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