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Originally Posted by GoNative
In my experience in Japan barely any government department databases are interconnected let alone them being connected to another countrys criminal database. Japan may make a lot of high tech stuff but you'll find that it's use within Japan is much less than most other developed nations. Especially within the bloated and incredibly inefficient bureaucracy where paper filing is still more popular than putting things on a computer database.
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This is not true. A friend of mine who is in Japan on a work visa lost his US passport on a daytrip to Korea. Japanese immigration let him back into Japan after looking up his info on the computer. They were able to find everything about him on their computer, from his drivers license photo to his residency tax payment records. They also had the number for his employer, though he had never given it to them.