Airport in Japan without Retina Scan

10/18/2017 12:44:30 AM

I’ve come in internationally through Narita, Haneda, and Kansai International Airport, and have never had a retina scan or fingerprinted more than my index finger. They do take a picture of your face at each location, however.

As for flying domestically within the country, they don’t do any of this, or even check id.

10/17/2017 9:45:30 PM

The chaos that would ensue if any airport tried to retina scan everyone would be absolutely incredible. See, I had a retina scan made or attempted to when I applied for my NEXUS card. It is not fast and in my case for example, it failed and so they attempted it multiple times before just giving up. It is telling that the NEXUS centre at YVR schedules these scans (just the scans, not interviews) at 30 minute intervals!! Crazy shit, I know. It is not that these scans take so long but they can.

IMO the only place where retina scans are everyday are for NEXUS cardholders entering Canada via air — and even there, only those who are not Canadian citizens or residents because they have automated machines which do not require such hassle so it’s absolutely marginal, a small fraction of a small fraction of passengers.

10/18/2017 6:04:13 AM

As far as I’m aware, and this is from personal experience since I visit Japan several times a year, these are no airports in Japan that do retina scans. You will be fingerprinted (index fingers only, not 10 digits) and photographed, but the camera used for the latter is akin to a consumer webcam (see photo here) and not sufficient to extract retinal information. Retinal scans also require aligning your eyes with the scanner at close range, which is not done at Japanese airports.

Also, the facial recognition gates are currently for Japanese citizens only, compare your face against the biometric image in your passport, and do indeed work with a single shot (although they may allow a second attempt if they can’t match the first time around).

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