The robot project of Kanazawa Institute of Technology started in 1996 from an initiative of two freshmen within the Dream Laboratory. In order to enhance students' level of technology, students challenged NHK Robot Contest. But after several difficult years sophomore students established the system to generate ideas to fight for new rules of the contest, design, make, test, demonstrate good performance at the contest by learning and educating incoming students by themselves. During the practice drastic changes in total capability have been found in each student involved, which indicates robot contest is an extremely good tool not only for engineering design but also cultivating human power.

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In this paper, a promising way of forming and penetrating security sense among employees in Japanese firms is clarified through the case study of Japanet Takata. The Personal Information Protection Law enforced in 2005 has raised customers' privacy protection awareness among businesspeople. Establishing proper information security measures for protecting customers' information privacy has become very important for firms. Once firms make trouble concerning security of personal information, it becomes urgent for them to set up and implement the recurrence prevention plans. Nevertheless, there exist firms in which information security incidents such as personal data leak happened repeatedly. On the other hand, Japanet Takata surmounted the incident of customer information leak and has become one of the most trustworthy firms in terms of personal information security. This has resulted in a significant increase in their sales.

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