Pokemon Card Stores Add Facial Recognition to Enforce Entry Limits
The Pokemon Company will use facial recognition to control entry and ticket distribution at five temporary Pokemon Card Stores opening across Japan. Customers…
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EU and Japan Show Digital Identity Wallets Can Exchange Credentials Across Their Borders
The European Union and Japan have completed a pilot demonstrating that a European Digital Identity Wallet and a Japanese counterpart can issue and verify each…
Seiko Solutions and Trust Stamp Plan Facial Recognition Service Rollout in Japan
Seiko Solutions and the US biometrics firm Trust Stamp have begun a joint project to bring a facial recognition authentication service to Japan, aiming for a…
Hitachi and Tobu Bring Retrofit Face Recognition Gates to Tokyo’s Ikebukuro Station
Hitachi and Tobu Railway have developed a walk-through facial recognition ticket gate system that retrofits Japan’s main existing rail gates rather than…
Tokyo Ward Deploys Outdoor Facial Recognition Cameras to Find Missing People
A Tokyo ward has installed outdoor security cameras with AI facial recognition to help find missing children and elderly people with dementia, in what…
Maldives Immigration Receives Japan-Donated Facial Recognition System
Maldives Immigration has taken delivery of a facial recognition system donated by the Government of Japan, in a handover the agency says is meant to strengthen…
Sharp’s AQUOS R11 Adds Privacy Masking for ‘My Number Card’ Photos
Sharp’s new AQUOS R11 smartphone includes a camera feature that automatically masks sensitive fields on Japan’s My Number Card when the card is photographed, a…
Japan’s Ruling Party Pushes for Mandatory My Number Card Acquisition
Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party is calling on the government to consider making acquisition of the My Number Card mandatory, a shift for a credential…
NTT Docomo Business Develops Prototype AI Agent Registry
NTT Docomo Business, the enterprise services division of Japanese telecommunications group NTT Docomo, has developed a prototype registry system designed to…
Japan Studies Social Media Age Verification and Platform Risk Labels
Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) has asked an expert advisory panel to examine whether social media platforms should be subject to…