Kiyoshi Murata    Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Commerce    Position   Professor
Language	English
Publication Date	2010/08
Type	Academic Journal
Peer Review	Peer reviewed
Title	The Development of Japanese Data Protection
Contribution Type	Co-authored (other than first author)
Journal	Policy & Internet
Volume, Issue, Page	2(2),pp.95-126
Author and coauthor	Andrew A. Adams, Kiyoshi Murata and Yohko Orito
Details	In 2003, Japan enacted its first private sector data protection legislation, complementing the concurrent update of the public sector regulations. The publicly stated goal of the Japanese government was to support trade with Europe by providing suitably strong protection to qualify for European data export approval. In this paper we examine the internal social and political pressures that led to the adoption of apparently strong private sector data protection, despite prior long resistance to such a move. The pressures we have identified include direct and indirect effects of Japanese economic difficulties since the early nineties, media pressure to update public sector rules because of the introduction of Juki-net, and similar media pressure to apply similar rules to the private sector. We also examine the role that the technology of kanji input systems played on the lack of urgency in demands for private sector data protection until 2000.
DOI	10.2202/1944-2866.1038
ISSN	1944-2866
URL for researchmap	https://doi.org/10.2202/1944-2866.1038