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CPSR REPORT OF CHAPTER

*Spring 2003


 CHAPTER        CPSR/Japan

 Board Liaison                  Shinji R. Yamane

 Chapter Officer information:   Shinji R. Yamane (Chair)
                                Kazuo Fujimoto (Secretary)
                                Joichi Ito (Treasurer)

 Chapter Contact Name           Shinji R. Yamane
 Address:                       Faculty of Software and Information Science
				Iwate Prefectural University
				152-52, Takizawa-aza-sugo, Takizawa, Iwate,
				020-0193, Japan

 Chapter Chair              	Shinji R. Yamane

 Chapter Secretary		Kazuo Fujimoto

 Chapter Treasurer		Joichi Ito

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 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THE CHAPTER HAS DONE SINCE LAST REPORTING:

 In January 2003, Asian Regional Conference for WSIS(World Summit on
the Information Society) was held in Japan (http://www.wsis-japan.jp/). 
A member from CPSR/Japan attended to the meeting.
 On Janury 12th, Nobuo Sakiyama appeared as a speaker from CPSR/Japan
on the side event of WSIS Asia Regional Conference and presented the
problems of content blocking software.
n In January 13-15th, Nobuo Sakiyama attended the WSIS Asia Regional
Conference as a member of CPSR, and contributed to the unofficial open
forum of the drafting of the Tokyo Declaration, and to the statement
of Asia Pacific NGO Coordinating Committee for WSIS.
 After the conference, Nobuo Sakiyama contributed to the comments
from Japan NGO Coordinating Committee for WSIS for the Draft
Declaration and the Draft Action Plan of WSIS on May 31st.

 Since the last year, CPSR/Japan members have warned the public about
the risks and vulnerability of Basic Residential Registers Network
System (BRRN, aka Juki-net) as the national ID system.
 Gosuke Takama has warned about the risks of MS-Windows operating
system in the governmental system since the last year and it made
Japanese policymakers to consider non-proprietary software.
 In February 15th, Shinji Yamane, Kazuo Fujimoto, and Nobuo Sakiyama
attended a workshop held by the liaison group of movements against the
Basic Residential Registers Network System. Shinji Yamane presented
his report on the security problems of multiple applcation smartcards
for BBRN.  Nobuo Sakiyama complemented the report of Shinji Yamane
with a realistic story with adversaries. Kazuo Fujimoto also discussed
with a lawyer about the governance of information systems. The report
of the workshop was published as a booklet from Gendaijinbunsha on May
31st, and Shinji Yamane and Kazuo Fujimoto appeared in it.

 CPSR/Japan also appeals on policymaking. In January, the discussion
about Copyright Law and public policy appeared on CHUOKORON magazine
2003 February issue.  Speakers are CPSR/Japan officer Joi Ito,
Lawrence Lessig from Stanford Law School, and Hiroo Yamagata.
 In March 7th, CPSR/Japan published a joint statement with JCA-NET
(http://www.jca.apc.org/index-en.html) against the Dating Sites
Control bill proposed by National Police Agency.

 CPSR/Japan members including Gohsuke Takama, Joi Ito, and Shinji
Yamane contributed to the report "International Research on Privacy
for Electronic Government" funded by Japanese government.  It is
available online (http://joi.ito.com/joiwiki/PrivacyReport) in June.

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 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THE CHAPTER MIGHT DO IN THE FUTURE:

 We will held an annual conference in this summer. 
It is CPSR/Japan's official one-year anniversary.

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I certify that the current balance in the Chapter account (if applicable)
is:

	 We don't have the bank account and balance.
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