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Hi Blog. Here are some translations, by Hanako Tokita at Global Voices Online, of some domestic voices in Japanese regarding the NJ Fingerprinting issue. Japanese and English T.

I won’t cut and paste them all here, since it is an elaborate site, but it’s worth a look. If only to see how half-baked the domestic debate has been.

http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/11/12/japan-fingerprints-mugshot-welcome-to-japan/

Courtesy of Chris Salzberg. I hope Hana does more domestic comments, because given what I know and have experienced about how anonymity affects the responsibility of posters, I bet the ill-considered/reactionary/xenophobic comments are the majority. The ones up on GVO are surprisingly intelligent in places. Arudou Debito in Sapporo

PS: GVO has appropriated Nick Wood’s excellent animation gif portraying the issue. Bravo.