[QUOTE=boilermaker]When I waw visiting in 1978, an uncle drove us to NRT, and we were stopped at a checkpoint outside the airport and were checked out with bomb-sniffing dogs and had a mirror on a long pole go under the car to check for explosives.

As a 15 year-old, I thought it was pretty cool.[/QUOTE

And in 1984, on my first Narita visit, the police at checkpoints all wore riot gear, the dogs were pretty intimidating, it was not fun and games thing.