IC you: bugging the alien (The Japan Times)
When the Japanese government first issued alien registration cards (aka gaijin cards) in 1952, it had one basic aim in mind: to track "foreigners" (at that time, mostly Korean and Taiwanese stripped of Japanese colonial citizenship) who decided to stay in postwar Japan. Gaijin cards put foreigners in their place: Registry is from age 16, so from a young age they were psychologically alienated ...

Gulf Bank first to complete migration to EMV chip-enabled MasterCard debit cards in Kuwait (AME Info)
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