Originally Posted by
Dubai Stu
The US has a procedure called "expedited removal" where a non-citizen can be not only denied admission to the US but be slapped with a five year bar from the country. I would argue that a person who has been subject to expedited removal has been "deported."
From what I've seen, the only way around a reentry sanction is with a "voluntary withdrawal" of attempting to entry the country. Again commonly offered in cases where the traveller wasn't attempting to violate the law but where discretion couldn't be exercised, like some minor criminal violation from long ago without the necessary exemption.
However, authorities in Japan seemed to go out of their way to exact an especially and unnecessarily harsh penalty in this case. I'm sure it'll make for a great story over sake in one of the "Foreigners forbidden" restaurants in Tokyo.