1st foreign resident to refuse fingerprinting dies at 79

1st foreign resident to refuse fingerprinting dies at 79

TOKYO, Japan - Han Jong Sok (file photo taken July 14, 1989), the first foreign resident in Japan to reject alien fingerprinting, died of respiratory failure at a Tokyo hospital on July 24, his family said July 25. He was 79.

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