2011

In November 2011, five people including a PI along with lawyers got arrested for obtaining residential/Family records without the purposeof litigation. This happened because they worked for the Japanesebiggest anti-social syndicate and were asked to search the householdof the police investigators who are in charge of the syndicate. In 2004, there was a huge political scandal with regards to the respective number of politicians failing to make mandatory social pension

In Japan eight professional occupations such as lawyers, judicial scriveners, notary public, etc. are granted to procure residential (Juminhyo) records and family (Koseki) records as their duty claim. No third parties except above eight occupations or the related person (such as a creditor, or legal hair, etc) are allowed to obtain the records. Former lawyers, arrested for fraudulent procurement of family registration (Koseki) records (November 14, 2011) Aichi prefectural police

Speakers Mr. Kevin J. Ripa, EnCE, CDRP, CEH Computer Evidence Recovery, Inc Kevin J. Ripa, owner of Computer Evidence Recovery, Inc, and Past President of the Alberta Association of Private Investigators, is a former member, in various capacities, of the Department of National Defence serving in both foreign and domestic postings. Mr. Ripa left the service of the Federal Government in 1991 but continued to serve on an “as called”

Investigative situations in Japan There are huge cultural differences in circumstances of private investigation industry between Japan and Western countries. Almost all the government registry records are not open to the public, except for real estate registry records and company registry records. And the Act on protection of personal information enacted in 2005 which had been pressured to install by EU countries is causing greater counter reactions to privacy matters