Japan 19th in Electronic Police State ranking
A site called CryptoHippie.com has produced a ranking of the worst electronic surveillance states. A little over 50 countries were studied, and Japan came in 19th place, making it orange instead of red on their map:

Nations depicted in Red are the most advanced electronic police states,
with an average rank of 3.0 or greater.Nations depicted in Orange are strongly developing electronic police
states, with an average rank of 2.5 or greater.Nations depicted in Yellow are lagging (but still developing) electronic
police states, with an average rank of 2.0 or greater.Nations depicted in green are states that seem to be going toward the
electronic police state model, but not as quickly.
The ranking of all nations where data was collected is as follows:
1. China
2. North Korea
3. Belarus
4. Russia
5. United Kingdom: England & Wales
6. United States of America
7. Singapore
8. Israel
9. France
10.Germany
11.Malaysia
12.Ireland
13.United Kingdom: Scotland
14.Netherlands
15.South Korea
16.Ukraine
17.Belgium
18.Australia
19.Japan
20.New Zealand
21.Austria
22.Norway
23.India
24.Italy
25.Taiwan
26.Denmark
27.Hungary
28.Greece
29.Canada
30.Switzerland
31.Slovenia
32.Poland
33.Finland
34.Sweden
35.Latvia
36.Lithuania
37.Cyprus
38.Malta
39.Estonia
40.Czech Republic
41.Iceland
42.South Africa
43.Spain
44.Portugal
45.Luxembourg
46.Argentina
47.Romania
48.Thailand
49.Bulgaria
50.Brazil
51.Mexico
52.Philippines
Further information can be found in this PDF file on the CryptoHippie site.
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