I love this giant hedge framing a modern house in Nakano. It’s even more beautiful at night, which is when we discovered it on a walk thr....
1 Sep 6:35 am  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 

More about the controversies of Street View in Germany from today's The Local:Google Street View is still harmless, says German consumer pro....
25 Aug 5:01 pm  from  Visual Anthropology of Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Image borrowed from The Local.Another VAOJ update, this one about Google Street View in Germany from The Local:Coalition politicians are dem....
18 Aug 3:36 pm  from  Visual Anthropology of Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 

On a drizzly day last week, I met an English landscape architect and her architect husband at Canal Cafe on the Soto-bori moat (外濠) at ....
12 Jul 5:47 pm  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Photo and text below borrowed from The Local.Bundeswehr protects soldiers from harassment with anonymityBundeswehr soldiers who serve on for....
29 Jun 8:04 pm  from  Visual Anthropology of Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 

From today's Japan Today:The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism says that a body scanner security system using electrom....
20 Jun 8:53 pm  from  Visual Anthropology of Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 

VAOJ has reported on the problems with Google Street View and privacy issues in Japan. There are also problems in Germany as well as other E....
31 May 6:28 am  from  Visual Anthropology of Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 

A Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (総務省) working group recently published an opinion sta....
31 May 4:27 am  from  Asiajin.com   [Profile]  [Recent] 

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14 Apr 4:15 pm  from  1000 things about Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 

From today's Japan Today:Japan Post Holdings Co plans to remove monitoring cameras from about 18,000 post offices nationwide at the cost of ....
10 Apr 1:10 pm  from  Visual Anthropology of Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 

From today's Japan Today:16 security cameras installed on Akihabara streetsIn a reaction to the 2008 stabbing rampage in Akihabara, the Kand....
27 Jan 12:17 pm  from  Visual Anthropology of Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Again, from Japan Today, 12/22/09...I know some of these articles seem redundant, but I post them here with the whole text as a sort of repo....
22 Dec 9:00 pm  from  Visual Anthropology of Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 

From today's Japan Today:East Japan Railway Co plans to install security cameras in trains on the Saikyo Line linking Tokyo and Saitama Pref....
13 Dec 11:12 pm  from  Visual Anthropology of Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 

I visited Odakyu’s Agris Seijo rental farm in Seijogakuenmae in Setagaya and was prepared to be charmed by a community vegetable farm bui....
22 Nov 10:54 pm  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent] 

According to figures released in a recent government white paper, Mainichi reports, the law abiding spirit of the Japanese people appears to....
21 Nov 6:22 pm  from  Guyjin.me   [Profile]  [Recent] 

A recent article from the Yomiuri On-Line discusses the so-called personal information law and several of its problems. As I discussed in ea....
14 Nov 2:34 pm  from  Visual Anthropology of Japan   [Profile]  [Recent]