Japan
The Social Security and Tax Number System
This website includes English translation of the important policy decisions regarding Identity cards implementation in Japan. Information is prepared by the Social Security Reform Office and IT Policy Office, Cabinet Secretariat of Japan.
http://digitaldebateblogs.typepad.com/digital_identity/2006/12/how_to_ma...
http://www.futuregov.asia/articles/2009/mar/02/japan-introduces-id-cards...
http://seeker401.wordpress.com/2011/02/05/japanese-citizens-face-id-day/
Below see paper by Fumio Shimpo Associate Professor at Keio University entitled:
The Definition of the Term 'Life-Logs' and Related Legal Accountability Issues concerning
Their Use
Playing the Identity Card: Surveillance, Security and Identification in Global Perspective, Routledge (2008)
Edited by Colin J. Bennett and David Lyon
Identifying Citizens: ID Cards as Surveillance, Polity (2009)
By David Lyon
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