Wonder if they still check boarding pass or an itinerary of a transferring passenger? Beside security check, another purpose of transit check was to make sure passenger is departing from NRT that day. NRT is not 24 hrs. airport and the terminals close at night. They want to make sure transiting passengers are departing NRT that day, not next day nor few days later.

The article on NHK said that Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism says securities on flights from the U.S. is done sufficiently. Interesting to say that because I think it was last year that a middle age women carried a box of a gun bullets in her carry on from the U.S. and she realized she had bullets when she arrived in Japan.

I think there was some political mumble jumble went on between Japan and the U.S. behind the scene. I think there are many other countries which preform passenger security screening on the same level as what is done at the U.S. airports.