{"id":13179,"date":"2015-03-30T09:05:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T19:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=13179"},"modified":"2015-03-30T09:05:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T19:05:04","slug":"japan-today-narita-airport-ends-id-security-checks-for-non-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=13179","title":{"rendered":"Japan Today: Narita airport ends ID security checks for non-passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog.\u00a0 One of the larger issues that Debito.org has taken up, that of Instant Gaijin Card Checkpoints (as in, racial profiling) for people for walking in public while NJ,<\/a> might be (overtly) coming to an end, at least in the place where new entrants (and their entourage) get their first taste of it:\u00a0 Narita International Airport.<\/p>\n

We have discussed Narita Airport’s treatment of NJ customers in detail before<\/a>.\u00a0 According to the article below, they are installing spy cameras instead of having the labor-intensive (and unnecessarily invasive, given that the Narita Prefectural Police Force stoppages that Debito.org has concentrated on were targeting NJ who had ALREADY cleared security screenings<\/a>) face-to-face singling out of people for extra scrutiny in a not-at-all-random manner.\u00a0 One might counterargue that this is swapping Big Brother for Bigger Brother.\u00a0 But I will still say that not having a potentially temperamental local cop, trained to see NJ as suspicous,<\/a> getting into a jet-lagged person’s face is an improvement.\u00a0 Let’s at least see if this will make Narita Airport behave less like a fortress,<\/a> with cops manning the pikes against the international hordes.\u00a0 Dr. ARUDOU, Debito<\/p>\n

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Narita airport ends ID security checks for non-passengers<\/strong>
\n JAPAN TODAY National Mar. 30, 2015, Courtesy of MS<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.japantoday.com\/category\/national\/view\/narita-airport-abolishes-id-security-checks-for-non-passengers<\/a><\/p>\n

NARITA \u2014 Narita International Airport on Monday abolished ID checks for non-passengers at the airport in Chiba Prefecture.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Since the airport opened in 1978, cars and buses have been stopped at various points, with occupants having to show ID such as passports, even if they weren\u2019t departing on flights. Drivers were also required to get out and open the trunk of their cars. The ID checks at railway ticket gates have also been scrapped.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The checks were put in place early on because of violent protests against the airport by farmers and radical groups opposing the government taking their land. Officials determined that security efforts at the airport would have to be a maximum priority in order to ensure safe and smooth operations. As a result, all visitors to the airport have been subjected to long lines, thorough baggage checks, and large numbers of security personnel at each stage of entering and exiting the terminals.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Airport officials said new high-tech camera-based surveillance systems will use face-recognition technology, track license plate numbers and perform other tasks that in the past, have required a great deal of money and man-power, Sankei Shimbun reported.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Another reason for the change is that government officials feel the old way of enforcing security measures at Narita Airport may present serious problems during the upcoming 2020 Tokyo Olympics as record numbers of foreign tourists are expected to be in attendance.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A state-of-the-art camera surveillance system consisting of 330 individual cameras will be used with 190 of the units dedicated to facial recognition and related tasks, while the other 140 would be monitoring the exterior of the buildings and tracking license plate numbers, suspicious behavior and other relevant security information.<\/em><\/strong>
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JT: Narita International Airport on Monday abolished ID checks for non-passengers at the airport in Chiba Prefecture. Since the airport opened in 1978, cars and buses have been stopped at various points, with occupants having to show ID such as passports, even if they weren\u2019t departing on flights. Drivers were also required to get out and open the trunk of their cars. The ID checks at railway ticket gates have also been scrapped. […] A state-of-the-art camera surveillance system consisting of 330 individual cameras will be used with 190 of the units dedicated to facial recognition and related tasks, while the other 140 would be monitoring the exterior of the buildings and tracking license plate numbers, suspicious behavior and other relevant security information.<\/p>\n

COMMENT: One of the larger issues that Debito.org has taken up, that of Instant Gaijin Card Checkpoints (as in, racial profiling) for people for walking in public while NJ, might be (overtly) coming to an end, at least in the place where new entrants (and their entourage) get their first taste of it: Narita International Airport. <\/p>\n

We have discussed Narita Airport’s treatment of NJ customers in detail before. According to the article below, they are installing spy cameras instead of having the labor-intensive (and unnecessarily invasive, given that the Narita Prefectural Police Force stoppages that Debito.org has concentrated on were targeting NJ who had ALREADY cleared security screenings) face-to-face singling out of people for extra scrutiny in a not-at-all-random manner. One might counterargue that this is swapping Big Brother for Bigger Brother. But I will still say that not having a potentially temperamental local cop, trained to see NJ as suspicous, getting into a jet-lagged person’s face is an improvement. Let’s at least see if this will make Narita Airport behave less like a fortress, with cops manning the pikes against the international hordes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,35,4,10,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fingerprinting-nj","category-good-news","category-japanese-government","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}