Originally Posted by
mrploddy
What's even worse is asking for re-entry stamps.
Unfortunately I have the joy of at some point dealing with UK Immigration again for my wife (moving back at some point) and we need to justify our existence or not existence in a country to them and entry/exit stamps are the easiest ways of doing that.
It's always hillarious how they have to take the passports in to the office to get them stamped. You would think they would keep at least 1 stamp primed at the gates just in case someone asks for a stamp.
This is handled fairly well at HKG with those little slips of paper that get printed out after your fingerprint scan.
I saw something in the news about how they're planning to revamp airport security in Japan before the Olympics in 2020. Hopefully things will improve at NRT and HND in the next couple of years.