No consistency
The new law requiring foreigners to be fingerprinted and photographed at Japan's airports is unfair.
Why are permanent residents being fingerprinted again? I've been paying taxes in Japan for the past 22 years, but now, when I arrive back at Narita from a trip home, I must wait in a long line to be again fingerprinted.
In the past, being a permanent resident meant greater trust. Now it is merely a visa status. All "gaijin" are the same -- suspect. -- Robert