A small report. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Sun Jun 16 JST 1996, Nihon Keizai Shinbun (called as "Nikkei" in Japan), Side: 1 ## XURL: X.16Jun1996JST.newspaper:xy//Nikkei/1/x210y0/ ==== # NOTE: [insufficient] translated and summarized by me. # # [untrusted] ... Because I don't use English very # well. Sorry. I recommend that you will read a # English version of Nikkei Shinbun. o MITI (Japanese Government's Ministry of International Trade and Industry) began to develop electronic notary system with some biggest computer company in Japan; Hitachi, Nihon I.B.M., NEC and Fujitsu. Some Japanese bigger bank (such as Daiichi-Kangyo Bank) will also take part in it. o It seems to me (by reading this article) that MITI want to develop Japan-original technology for the electronic notary system. o Milestone of the plan: - Misc. preparations for it until the end of 1996. - Doing experimental examination in 1997. # I don't know that 1996/1997 are fiscal year (called # "(kaikei-)nendo" in Japan) or not. Japanese fiscal year # starts April in every year. o This system will be applied for following term: 1) submitting of public docments to public offices, 2) electronic commerce, 3) electronic publishing, 4) electronic warehouse service. o IC card will be used in order to store digital key information. /// -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMcOHvNYQrW27B3yFAQEO2AP/YZsgZ+cQLrztUIQMmBeOC5X53RVlBldH SHG/QkydKd37un5OYC5HMUBdqgCWO9jfVtrCdZg10i6QKeWsdz02m2HcmYTcArLv X9i2+KRuih6eBtxaxKfKV97TZC9bVzbv4J3c+2YEU7C2KNFB/IbwEpoSzu4MOkYo 3uMwGJV9etc= =h/sH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - Tsuyoshi Hayashi <take@barrier-free.co.jp> - PGP public key: http://www.barrier-free.co.jp/take/pgpkey - (CF 27 34 5B 46 FA 2A 12 D2 4C E3 F7 2A 45 E0 22) - Barrier Free, Inc. (established on 25 Jan 1996)