While the Ministry of the Interior's decision to ban Kobayashi from entering Taiwan is fair game for public debate, every country has the right to bar the entry of certain persons. Japan itself provides an example of this right with its repeated refusal to allow former-President Lee Teng-hui, a Japanophile, to visit in spite of his oft-expressed desire to do so.
內政部禁止小林入境是否必要，誠可接受各方公評，但每個國家都有權否決特定外籍人士的入境權，例如親日的前總統李登輝多次表達訪日心願，迄今仍難以實現，就是一例。