At the same time, there is standardization between the countries, and must not to exist any differences. We also understand each other that we have same way of thinking about research world beyond language differences. We have some common problems about the quality of the survey. Dr. Alan Westin started to take an interested in Japan when he invited to the international exhibition in Tsukuba, Japan for giving the lecture. It was the year of 1985, and also he started to research the issue of the privacy protection.
Privacy protection is protected by the government s regulations.
It is also the aim of EU order. They set up the supervision of privacy protection agency. It is controlled top-down form by government basically. On the other hand, US private enterprise and other organization try to control the privacy protection by themselves. Now, most anxiously thing is that the quality, especially rates of collection is decreased.