Tokyo DispatchJapan, in EnglishHiroshi Miyashita of Chuo University says companies collect personal data they do not need and will not delete, and that keeping less would be the best defense against cyberattacks.
A cultural anthropologist studying services that recreate the dead with generative AI says Chinese use spread fast under early rules, while Japanese users treat the technology as a kind of altar.
Eight years after his arrest, a high school teacher describes a habit he says has not gone away. Japan's response has been punishment after the fact; Taiwan's has been cameras in every public elementary and junior high classroom.
Yumi Muramatsu says the Tokyo District Court treated gender as private information and nothing more; the court found she had no justification for publishing Ri Kotomi's history.
The government will consider monitoring traffic between parties inside Japan, which the current law leaves untouched, after the prime minister ordered a review of the active cyberdefense law.
Keisuke Sato of Sophia University says services that recreate lost relatives raise questions about consent, dignity and who profits — and Japan is answering none of them.
