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CPSR GROUP/PROJECT REPORT

*October 17- Feb. 10 


GROUP 	CPSR/Japan

Board Liaison	Shinji R. Yamane

Officer information:

Contact Name	Shinji R. Yamane

Address:	Iwate Prefrctural University
		Faculty of Software and Information Science
		152-52, Sugo, Takizawa, Iwate, 020-0193, Japan

Chair		Shinji R. Yamane

Secretary	Kazuo Fujimoto

Treasurer	Joichi Ito


CPSR WebPage URL: http://black.res.soft.iwate-pu.ac.jp/~s-yamane/cpsr/
			( japan.cpsr.org is reserved. )

CPSR WebPage Editor(s): Shinji Yamane

Date of Last WebPage Update: Jan 4 2004



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

I.
CPSR/Japan was planning to send a member to WSIS during Dec.10-12 in
Geneva, however, it was canceled unfortunately.

II.
 Board member Joichi Ito has continued to provide the technical
comment about Basic Residents Registry system.  The governor of Nagano
ordered an security audit and published the brief report in
December. Joi sent a letter about the audit and it raise the public
mention.
(The Committee in Nagano is examining the test results and the final
result is not yet published.)
	News articles in English:
	Test shows Juki Net not 100% hack-free
	 http://www.asahi.com/english/nation/TKY200312170143.html
	Tanaka in fresh attack on Juki Net
	 http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20031217a2.htm
	Nagano gov't hackers easily infiltrate 'Big Brother' network
	 http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200312/16/20031216p2a00m0dm004000c.html

	Joi's comment in weblog in English:
	http://joi.ito.com/archives/cat_japanese_national_id.html


III.
 In December, Board member Shinji Yamane translated the "Position
Statement on the Use of RFID on Consumer Products", originally
published in November and co-signed by several organizations including
CPSR.
	http://black.res.soft.iwate-pu.ac.jp/~s-yamane/cpsr/jointrfid-j.html
It will be useful resource for coming Japanese RFID guideline prepared
by METI, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (http://www.meti.go.jp/).



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

CPSR/Japan will held a small informal meeting with CPSR president
Nathaniel Borenstein at Tokyo in February.


COMMENTS FOR THE BOARD AND/OR STAFF 

We're lookng forward to the coming meeting with our president!


-- 
Shinji R. Yamane
 Chair, CPSR/Japan
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