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Strip Searches Limited in The Philippines
Filed in archive Asia by Matthew Schulz on July 6, 2007
A new "no touch" policy should halt strip searches by Philippine immigration officials of Japanese visitors.

It's not that they like or dislike tattoos.

Strip Searches Limited in The Philippines
The justification for the strip searches was to identify Yakuza - Japanese organized crime members. There were claims of abuse by immigration officials, however, and that is the explanation given for the change in policy.

See RP immigration bans strip-searches to find Yakuza tattoos, The Philippine Star, July 5 2007, for the whole story.


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