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CPSR CHAPTER REPORT 2005-2006

GROUP: 	CPSR/Japan

Board Liaison	Shinji R. Yamane

Officer information:
Contact Name	Shinji R. Yamane
E-mail:		Yamane.Shinji@iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Chapter's Board Member :
 Chair/President/Treasurer
	Shinji R. Yamane <s-yamane@computer.org>
	Ph.D student, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo.
	http://www.cpsr.org/Members/syamane
 Vice President
      	Nobuo Sakiyama <sakichan@sakichan.org>
	Computer Professional
	http://www.sakichan.org/
 Secretary
 	Kazuo Fujimoto <fujimoto@sakushin-u.ac.jp>
	Professor, Depertment of Human and Culture Sciences, Sakushin Gakuin University.
	http://www.sakushin-u.ac.jp/~fujimoto/

Group Email List Address : cpsr-japan@lists.cpsr.org

CPSR WebPage URL: http://www.cpsr.org/act/global/japan/ (Since Feb. 2005)

Date of Last WebPage Update: June 13, 2006

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

>From year 2005 to 2006, CPSR/Japan members have joined more events and
have more speeches, however, we have published less reports or public
comments to the policymakers. 

We had many events including:

2005.01-
Gohsuke Takama, CPSR/Japan active member, started providing the
lawsuit documents on Ejovi Nuwere v. Japanese government trial.
 http://metamemos.typepad.com/
Mr. Ejovi Nuwere is a security consultant who had been prevented to
speak at security conference about the lesson of security audit for
Japanese local governments' Juki-net(National Basic Resident Registry
Network).

2005.04-
 CPSR/Japan started monthly casual lunch meeting.

2005.05-
CPSR/Japan joined "Tokyo Ubiquiouts Network Conference", one of the
WSIS thematic meeting. And also joined some related international
events organized by JCA-NET.

2005.06: Openlaw@hatena project started
 CPSR/Japan started new project "Openlaw@hatena", joint project with
JCA-NET. It is a Japanese version of Openlaw Project at Berkman
Center, Harvard law school.
(http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/). Its initial case is Juki-net
(National Basic Resident Registry Network) trial.
 Juki-net identifies each resident by an 11-digit code and registers
six types of basic personal information, such as name and domicile. It
also linked with multi-purpose smartcard applications.
 Openlaw@hatena project provides whole scanned documents used an the
Juki-net constitutional trials.  CPSR/Japan especially provides
comments on international e-Gov projects including Canada or risk
analysis of national-ID network and smartcard security.

2005.06 Shinji Yamane, chapter chair, visited CPSR office and met
initial members to start archiving historical materials about CPSR
initial activities.
 http://www.cpsr.org/act/global/japan/enews/archiving200504
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/cpsr/

2005.08
 Kazuo Fujimoto, chapter officer, had a talk on at Summer session
on Juki-net and government's personal information protection.	

2005.10
 Shinji Yamane, chapter chair, have a speech on protecting programmer's right 
at the initial conference of LSE (League for Software Engineers).
   http://www.FreeKaneko.com/
   http://lse.or.jp/?seminar001
LSE is the non-profit organization come from "freekaneko.com"
movements that supports the arrested developer of P2P sharing software
"Winny", and CPSR/Japan has supported them.

2005.10
 Joi Ito, Chapter's officer and also ICANN board member, became CPSR's
new board member.

2005.11
 Chapter's board election for next 3 years.
New board members are:
 * Chair/President/Treasurer	Shinji R. Yamane
 * Vice President	Nobuo Sakiyama
 * Secretary	Kazuo Fujimoto
Board members decided to have a vise-president who supports a president.

2006.01
Shinji Yamane, chapter's chair and president, setup and join to a
panel discussion on P2P file sharing software "Winny", from the
viewpoint od software developer co-hosted by LSE (League for Software
Engineers) and GLOCOM, International University of Japan.

2006.03
CPSR/Japan suppported LSE seminar series for software engineers held
in November 2005, January 2006, and March 2006.
 http://lse.or.jp/

2006.05
Nobuo Sakiyama, Chapter's vice president put a public comment to
Internet Association Japan.  Recent Japanese ISPs are preparing
Japanese Internet Hotline Center (http://www.iajapan.org/hotline/)
like INHOPE (Internet Hotline Expert Network) in Europe.  It will
share their information between ISPs, Japanese Police department, and
filtering software vendors. Their information sharing policy may be
conflicted with INHOPE guideline. We continue to watch out.

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

We will have CPSR/Japan annual conference around July.


FINANCE

We have no bank account, and did not receive any money.