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Hi Blog. \u00a0In a development that Debito.org has been anticipating for quite some time (see, for example, the remotely-trackable RFID chipped Zairyuu Kaado<\/em> ID cards the Government rolled out in 2012 to keep better tabs on NJ Residents<\/a>), according to a Kyodo article below the Government is using the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as an excuse to enact programs digitally tracking all foreign tourists. \u00a0Read on:<\/p>\n

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Japan developing tracking system for travelers from overseas as anti-virus measure<\/strong>
\nKyodo News\/Japan Today Dec. 27, 2020<\/strong>
\nhttps:\/\/japantoday.com\/category\/national\/Japan-developing-tracking-system-for-travelers-from-overseas-as-anti-virus-measure<\/a><\/p>\n

TOKYO (KYODO) — Japan is developing a system aimed at keeping track of travelers from overseas as part of efforts to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus within its borders, a senior government official said Sunday.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“There will be no point if we don’t implement it, so you will not be allowed to enter the country unless you use it,” Takuya Hirai, digital transformation minister, said on television.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Hirai said the government wants to complete the development of the monitoring system by the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, due to be held next summer.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Without providing in-depth detail, he said it will function by using global positioning system technology.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

His comments on Fuji TV’s “The Prime” news program came a day after Japan said it will ban nonresident foreign citizens from entering the country, which has been seeing record daily numbers of coronavirus cases in recent weeks.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The measure, which will take effect from Monday through January, was announced following Japan’s detection of a new and seemingly more contagious variant of the virus.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Among other measures to tighten its borders, Japan will require its nationals and foreign residents to quarantine for two weeks, show proof of a negative coronavirus test result within 72 hours of departure for the country and undergo another test upon arrival.<\/em><\/strong>
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COMMENT<\/strong>: \u00a0Nothing quite like being forced to wear the equivalent of a GPS criminal tracker<\/a> for your entire stay. \u00a0And it’s not a stretch to see it being applied beyond tourists to NJ Residents after that, as Covid is providing a pretense to “track and trace” those “foreign clusters<\/a>“. \u00a0As CNN notes, “If visitors are allowed [to attend the Olympics], their experience will likely be high-tech. The government is developing a contract tracing app for attendees using GPS that will reportedly link visas, proof of test results, tickets and other information, authorities said<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Visas? So we’re getting Immigration involved? As Submitter JDG<\/a> notes, “Obviously, it\u2019s just a matter of time until the Japanese demand all NJ are 24\/7 tracked legally in real time with an automated alert popping up on some koban monitor the minute their visas expire. That ought to end that nefarious den of crime right there! \u00a0Whew<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Finally, note how this proposed contract tracing and tracking is only being applied to foreigners, not Japanese:<\/p>\n

“In doing so, [Kanagawa] prefecture would spend much less time pursuing contact history for what it described as the second most cluster-prone demographic \u2014 namely, kindergarten, day care and school teachers \u2014 and would completely stop investigating others<\/span>.\u00a0With the announcement, Kanagawa became the nation\u2019s first prefecture to forge ahead with such a drastic scaling down of contact-tracing, which had been the linchpin of Japan\u2019s battle against the pandemic.”<\/em> <\/strong>(Japan Times, Jan 19, 2021<\/a>, courtesy of JDG<\/a>, emphasis added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So with the advance of technology, the dragnet further tightens on “the foreign element” in Japan. As we have seen with the G8 Summits<\/a>, the 2002 soccer World Cup<\/a>, the 2019 Rugby World Cup<\/a>, “Visit Japan” tourism campaigns in general<\/a>, and now the 2020 Olympics, international events in Japan serve to inflame its knee-jerk “safety and security” reflexes, and justify all manner of bad overpolicing habits<\/a>. They essentially become an excuse to invite foreigners in, then police them further. \u00a0Debito Arudou, Ph.D.<\/p>\n

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In a development that Debito.org has been anticipating for quite some time (see, for example, the remotely-trackable RFID chipped Zairyuu Kaado ID cards the Government rolled out in 2012 to keep better tabs on NJ Residents), according to a Kyodo article below the Government is using the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as an excuse to enact programs digitally tracking all foreign tourists. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Nothing quite like being forced to wear the equivalent of a GPS criminal tracker for your entire stay. \u00a0And it’s not a stretch to see it being applied beyond tourists to NJ Residents after that, as Covid is providing a pretense to “track and trace” those “foreign clusters”. \u00a0As CNN notes, “If visitors are allowed [to attend the Olympics], their experience will likely be high-tech. The government is developing a contract tracing app for attendees using GPS that will reportedly link visas, proof of test results, tickets and other information, authorities said.”<\/p>\n

Visas? So we’re getting Immigration involved? As Submitter JDG notes, “Obviously, it\u2019s just a matter of time until the Japanese demand all NJ are 24\/7 tracked legally in real time with an automated alert popping up on some koban monitor the minute their visas expire. That ought to end that nefarious den of crime right there! \u00a0Whew.”<\/p>\n

So with the advance of technology, the dragnet further tightens on “the foreign element” in Japan. As we have seen with the G8 Summits, the 2002 soccer World Cup, the 2019 Rugby World Cup, “Visit Japan” tourism campaigns in general, and now the 2020 Olympics, international events in Japan serve to inflame its knee-jerk “safety and security” reflexes, and justify all manner of bad overpolicing habits. They essentially become an excuse to invite foreigners in, then police them further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,36,22,33,42,20,5,12,4,10,11,64,17,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embedded-racism","category-bad-social-science","category-cultural-issue","category-fingerprinting-nj","category-g8-summit","category-history","category-human-rights","category-immigration-assimilation","category-japanese-government","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime","category-problematic-foreign-treatment","category-sitys","category-sport","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16363","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=16363"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16404,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16363\/revisions\/16404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}