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Pretty ironic, given that the US is the only country I've been to (so far) where my fingerprints have been taken. Live by the sword, yadda yadda.
by pluies_public 14y ago
Pretty ironic, given that the US is the only country I've been to (so far) where my fingerprints have been taken. Live by the sword, yadda yadda.
- nfg 14y agoRecently passed through Thailand and had to have fingerprints taken (at a land border).
- andrewpi 14y agoJapan fingerprints foreign visitors as well.
- _debug_ 14y agoJapan does whatever the U.S. tells them to. Or else. In general, considering the 8 U.S. military bases in Tokyo (not Japan, just Tokyo), and in particular, the 31000 sq metre military base in the centre of the city, in Roppongi (prime real estate worth at least $60 m, with a few military helicopters landing/taking off from there every day, and a lot more towards the weekend), IMHO, Japan is an occupied territory not too different from Afghanistan or Iraq. IMHO, the role of Japan in the scheme of things as designed by the US is to hold US debt, giving legitimacy to the piece of paper printed by the Treasury. The entire Toyota drama was about Japan trying to assert it's independence and not follow orders.
- etherael 14y agoThe Toyota drama you refer to sounds interesting, any chance of a link?
- _debug_ 14y agoGot that from someone whose family works in the CIA, no link. Edit : Assuming you were not asking for proof, only information, see : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%932011_Toyota_vehicle_recalls http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%932011_Toyota_vehicl.... Note that "After a 10 month search, NASA and NHTSA scientists found no electronic defect in Toyota vehicles. Driver error or pedal misapplication was found responsible for most of the incidents". But the dive in Toyota stock price, sales, and most importantly, brand image, was enough to send the message. Toyota stocked surged 20% after the then-Japanese PM resigned after his failure to get the US off of Okinawa.
- Symmetry 14y agoI can see what you're saying with regards to bases, but economically... do you remember the 80s?
- daniel-cussen 14y agoDo you remember the 90s?
- aubergene 14y agoInteresting to read about the helicopter pad in Aoyama http://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/11/09TOKYO2570.html http://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/11/09TOKYO2570.html
- daniel-cussen 14y agoOh, totally. You figure, first, that America doesn't have 50,000 soldiers there for no reason. No country has ever had soldiers in other countries for no reason. The reason is that it's a vassal state, and the way it pays its tribute is, depending on how you want to look at it, by sending awesome manufactured goods over, or buying bad paper at high prices with its huge annual trade surplus. Cf Germany.
- _debug_ 14y ago"vassal state" Ha, been some time since I heard that phrase, thanks for that!
- vyrotek 14y agoI had my whole hand done when I went to Italy for a few years.
- saryant 14y agoIreland does it for some nationalities.
- pm90 14y agoI think that they take fingerprints in Japan as well, among other things
- smutticus 14y agoJust passed through Doha recently and they took my picture. Once when I entered and another time when I left. I know it's not the same as fingerprinting. But with image recognition getting better it's not that far off.
- adnam 14y agoSpain fingerprints it's entire population as part of the process of getting an ID card ("DNI").
- molsongolden 14y agoOne of my flights from the US routed through Schiphol then I entered Spain without going through customs or getting my passport stamped. I'm not really sure what happened.
- a-priori 14y agoBoth the Netherlands and Spain are in the Schengen Area, so there's no border controls between them. The same happens if you go to Zürich via Paris, for example. I've done that a few times; you don't go through Swiss customs.
- shrikant 14y agoThe UK Border Agency does this as well (could only be for some nationalities).
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- waqf 14y agoBrazil fingerprints U.S. citizens only, as a calculated return of the insult.
- saryant 14y agoA number of nations have a tit-for-tat policy when it comes to immigration practices. For example, China matches the fee for a US tourist visa for Chinese citizens when Americans try to go to China. That's far from the only example.