Full body scanners being tested at three airports

I hope they remember to put the scanners on the outgoing security checks and not in the line for foreigners coming into Japan.

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You said it. How much you wanna bet it will be for us only?

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Great, now some geek and look and record my wife's body.

Any would be terrorist would simply be able to defeat these scanners by simply concealing items within the body.

These scanners are just expensive toys for security theatre to make passengers feel more secure. I've always refused. Only in Amsterdam was there any push-back by the security people. Oddly, they didn't do a pat down, just let me through without screening. This was at the gate. Experts agree: https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2009/11/beyond_security_thea.html

If they look like sailor moon wands i am ok with it ;)

The ones shown on NHK news yesterday show considerable anatomical detail. I'm not comfortable with that at all.

Any would be terrorist would simply be able to defeat these scanners by simply concealing items within the body.

ouch!! i can just see a terrorist trying to pull a rocket launcher out of his a*se. that's one determined jihadist.

I wonder if the scanners will be for foreigners only. I doubt the Japanese will have to go through them.

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I juts hope they offer the good old fashion pat down as an alternative. They gave us that when we were in Guam.

I am more disturbed by the 'pat' downs after going through these security scanningmachines. I experienced several times recently on a trip to the States. I felt I was being felt up by one security person.

I juts hope they offer the good old fashion pat down as an alternative

Thanks for sharing your fantasy with us, much obliged.

I just hate airports. I don,t mind flying but with all the stuffing around just to get to your cramped seat on the plane then you have to go do it all again at the other end of your flight and this go for domestic flying also. When I go to Hokkaido I catch the ferry with my car from Niigate. It take 24 hour but it a fun way to travel

If you have nothing to hide just stand still and go through it. People can complain all they want, but if your loved ones on a plain and if it hijacked, you will be the first ones screaming for such security measures! Also they do detect items not organic inside the body. You should see what a knee replacement looks like when a person is checked.

For those of you that don't like it try going Business Class-less hassle And I really wonder why after having flown around half a million miles that I am still prodded and searched-statistically searching older people,young children etc is a waste of time-I have yet to see any children charged with a terrorist of offence outside of Israel! This month having just gotten over a heavy dose of jet lag in Europe I was flying back to Japan. I was looking less than happy having waited in the security line for ages thinking about going through the whole process again "Is everything alright sir?" came a voice from behind the conveyor.

What could I have answered in reply?

Ah, facism at its finest!

I'm curious how they are testing these things. I sure as hell hope there are under cover security and/or police attempting to go through the scanners with well concealed weapons or chemicals, because otherwise the only other way they're going to prove the scanners are effective or not is if someone actually concealing something gets through and causes an accident/incident. I'd hate if the only way they think the new scanners are effective is if they are saying, "Well... not planes blew up today -- so they MUST work," or worse, a plane or the airport is terrorized and that's how they learn the things are ineffective.

In any case, the machines are incredibly expensive, so I hope Japan does very thorough testing and not just waits a week then jumps the gun as always so they can say they are the first nation to be using them en masse (as with everything else), only to later prove they are ineffective. Same thing happened with the 'SARS machines', which were useless, and the Dreamliners that were all grounded for an extended time. DON'T RUSH!

I left my passport in my pocket and they said nothing, and in my back pack was a nail clipper and that guy said nothing either. Actually the nail clipper has been in my back pack for years.

They took my nail clippers away from me about thirteen years ago at Kansai International.

Quote: "by using a small amount of radio waves..." An updated version of the original controversial US ones, then?

Not enough information here for me to risk the health of my family.

Exactly how many would-be terrorists have been thwarted by these contraptions?

Perhaps by 2020 the terrorist paranoia will be at such a level that airlines will feel justified in expecting passengers to all wear unisex bodysuits while aboard a plane, opaque to onlookers but completely transparent to body scanners, and scanners will be at such strength that they become capable of diagnosing scoliosis and airline inspectors will need training to recognize an artificial heart, breast and penile implants so that they stop brutalizing models, heart condition sufferers and transgendered people. Then even those people suggesting that terrorists can still hide some thing in their rectum or vagina will finally be able to breathe a sigh of relief i guess?