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The pattern that the fingerprint can play the opening of the sweat gland in the skin of the finger-tip by a ridge.
Or the trace that the design that this formed stuck to the surface of the object.

"The patterns" are different entirely and have a characteristic of the immutability every person and finger for life.
It depends even if I compare it with recent DNA type judgment, and it may be said that it is a highly reliable judgment method because there is not the fingerprint to be equal to to be identical twins.

The fingerprint is used as the crime investigation and the personal certification by such a characteristic.
It was based on the report of Department of Justice Kiichiro Hiranuma of the (1908) in Japan in 1908, and the Metropolitan Police Department adopted a fingerprint system to (1911) in 1911.

In Japan, a thumbmark was adopted as "a signature / sealing in the deed" and a thing with the same meaning from the Edo era.
It may be that is to say said that Japan recognized "personal identification by the fingerprint" from old days.

But, as for the recognition not to "inherit the fingerprint", it is a mistake, and actually there is a difference every race, residence area.
It is a hoof-shaped crest that there is the most in a Japanese.
In addition, the patient developing a Kabuki syndrome has hoof-shaped crest increase characteristic fingerprint.


By the development of the recent biometrics, most came to be known about a fingerprint more, but there is around a one-100000th by actual survey, and an equivalence fingerprint and the rate (false reputation case rate) recognizing disappear despite "an equivalence person though it is the fingerprint of the another person because a fingerprint is the same".

Sealing / the presentation of the fingerprint was ever obliged to in the case of alien registration in Japan, and there was movement to object to as human rights violations in this.
On the other hand, it was suspected whether the human rights violations were actually to facilitate North Korean espionage in Japan for reasons of the ostensibility.