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The 3-Line Summary<\/h2>\n

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  1. In 2018 the Internet Governance Conference Japan (IGCJ) held four Tokyo meetings, with JAIPA's 'IGF-Japan 2018' forum in March \u2014 a year spent facing two storms: GDPR taking effect and Japan's piracy-site blocking controversy.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. The DNS-blocking dispute, triggered by the government's emergency measures, was debated on legal and technical grounds centred on the secrecy of communications; in September an opinion paper with co-signatories was published on the IGCJ site.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. The tension between 'effective enforcement' and 'freedom of communications' \u2014 the prototype of today's platform-regulation debates \u2014 played out in concentrated form in Japan that year.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on Internet Governance Conference Japan (IGCJ) \u2014 2018 Meetings<\/strong> draws on official outputs, session records and on-site reporting. In a hurry? The three lines above and the diagrams carry the gist.<\/p>\n

    Conference at a Glance (from official records)<\/h2>\n

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    Item<\/th>\nDetail<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
    Official name<\/td>\nInternet Governance Conference Japan (IGCJ) \u2014 2018 Meetings<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Dates<\/td>\n13 February \u2013 29 November 2018 (four meetings)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Venue<\/td>\nJPNIC conference room (Kanda, Tokyo) and Hulic Conference (during Internet Week 2018)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Theme<\/td>\nRegional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Host<\/td>\nInternet Governance Conference Japan (IGCJ; secretariat: JPNIC)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Outcome<\/td>\n'Opinion on DNS blocking of piracy sites' (published on the IGCJ site in September 2018 with a list of co-signatories)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    (See the source list at the end of this article.)<\/p>\n

    Discussion Digest \u2014 from the Session Records<\/h2>\n

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    Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n

    1. Piracy-site Blocking \u2014 A Head-on Clash over the Secrecy of Communications<\/h3>\n

    Sessions<\/strong>: 25th meeting (28 Aug), information-sharing on the government's piracy-countermeasures panel, and the wider April\u2013October 2018 controversy<\/p>\n

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    "The destination of a communication also falls within the secrecy of communications. Routing is accepted as carriers' legitimate business \u2014 blocking is not."
    \n\u2014 Ryoji Mori (attorney, at the 18 April 2018 emergency symposium co-hosted by JAIPA)<\/strong> [3][5][7][8]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n