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Book publication: Kokumin ID – Donyu ni Muketa Torikumi (Citizen ID System - Efforts Toward an Implementation)

January 15, 2009

Supervised by the IISE and published by NTT Publishing. Chief Fellow Izumi Harada edited the book and also provided the Introduction. Senior Research Fellow Kazuko Yuma wrote Chapter 6.

Triggered by the “lost pension” problem, there is a rush to develop a system, such as a social security card, by which to identify individuals. Yet such a system can go the same way as the struggling Juki Card (Resident Registration Card) system if its implementation is not well designed. The new system must be secure as well as reassuring to the people. Using leading examples from Europe, including the sectoral model adopted in Austria, this book discusses the type of personal identification system Japan will need in future.

Kokumin ID
NTT Publishing Co., Ltd.
Price: 2,940 yen
ISBN: 978-4-7571-0239-2

Kokumin ID – Donyu ni Muketa Torikumi (Citizen ID System - Efforts Toward an Implementation)

Supervised by IISE
Edited and written by Izumi Harada
Written by Toru Maekawa, Kazuko Yuma, Yusuke Koizumi and Erika Yoshida

Introduction: Post-Juki Net system: A trump card for the expansion of the regional information base

Chapter 1: Purposes and issues of the Juki Net
Chapter 2: Case overseas: Austria – A case of electronic administration built on a resident database
Chapter 3: Case overseas: Estonia
Chapter 4: Case overseas : Germany
Chapter 5: Lessons from the examples of foreign countries: Ongoing discussion on (tentatively named) social security card system and the personal number system
Chapter 6: Suggestion: To build a better information society
Appendix: “Creation of the Japan-ID”: A suggestion from the Citizens’ Congress on Promotion of Information Society?Japan Productivity Center for Socio Economic Development



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