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And some countries just stopped stamping passports, you'll just get a piece of paper you'll have to keep until you are leaving the country (Israel).

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Japan has been doing this for about half a decade. Hong Kong started this practice at the same time as Israel.

Probably the same technology provider doing a global roll out based on country size.

I had no idea anyone considered Japan unfriendly.

Unless...could it be PRC?

A departure card like the type you're mentioning is pretty common, but isn't instead of a passport stamp.

It's instead of the passport stamp in Israel [0]. Otherwise you'd have problems getting into Jordan for example. (Other countries according to wikipedia: Iran, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen).

Source: My own experience

[0] https://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/forums/middle-east/to...

I had the piece-of-paper as a tourist in the US in 2009. They removed it on my exit from the country - so my US trip shows up in my passport as a series of staple-holes.

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