{"id":2119,"date":"2009-02-02T11:06:07","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T02:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2009-02-02T11:06:07","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T02:06:07","slug":"japanese-government-promotes-puppet-security-idol-securina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/japanese-government-promotes-puppet-security-idol-securina\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Government Promotes Puppet Security Idol &#8220;Securina&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.checkpc.go.jp\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/securina-top-screenshot-400x283.png\" alt=\"securina-top-screenshot\" title=\"securina-top-screenshot\" width=\"400\" height=\"283\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2118\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.checkpc.go.jp\/\">Securina<\/a> is an another virtual idol unit by puppets newly appeared into Japanese otaku scene, as a part of &#8220;Check PC&#8221; campaign backed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meti.go.jp\/\">METI, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan<\/a>.<br \/>\nShina, from Tokyo, who is unfussy and easygoing, likes Parfait.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/securina-1-200x200.png\" alt=\"securina-1\" title=\"securina-1\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2120\" \/><br \/>\nand Sena from Osaka, assertive and boyish, likes drive.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/securina-2-200x200.png\" alt=\"securina-2\" title=\"securina-2\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2121\" \/><br \/>\nThe &#8220;Check PC&#8221; campaign is supposed to enlighten the internet users about their security risk.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.checkpc.go.jp\/pv\/popup.html\">Here is their debut single promotion video<\/a>. (pretty unstable. They should think about putting them onto Niconico Douga and YouTube, which I think unlikely happens though.)<br \/>\nI tried to listen and translate the first part of lyrics to English.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWatch out! P-L-E-A-S-E!<br \/>\nThe day you disappear from me<br \/>\nThe day your data disappear from my PC<br \/>\nWon&#8217;t show to anyone, but those are precious photos.<br \/>\nIt freezed PC, freezed me. Freezed!<br \/>\n(spoken)<br \/>\nOh, what? What happenned? Really? Gee. I&#8217;m in panic!<br \/>\nMy secret photo is leaked to the Internet!<br \/>\nPC freeze, check please!<br \/>\nNo one can be exception.<br \/>\nForewarned is forearmed.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not a joke.<br \/>\nThat makes me blue.<br \/>\nSo, so early, frequently check your PC, please!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/securina-check-pc-please-400x226.png\" alt=\"securina-check-pc-please\" title=\"securina-check-pc-please\" width=\"400\" height=\"226\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2122\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.checkpc.go.jp\/pv\/01.html\">Securina&#8217;s profile<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.checkpc.go.jp\/pv\/02.html\">how they become the first information security idol in Japan<\/a> are also explained.<br \/>\nThere are also security <a href=\"http:\/\/www.checkpc.go.jp\/simulation\/index.html\">comic<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.checkpc.go.jp\/measures\/index.html\">check-list<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.checkpc.go.jp\/check\/index.html\">self-exam<\/a> and more to tell people about computer virus, phishing, fraudulent access, etc.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.checkpc.go.jp\/blog_parts\/index.html\">Securina blog widget<\/a> (&#8220;Blog parts&#8221; in Japanese) is also provided.<br \/>\n[update] Impress Internet Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/internet.watch.impress.co.jp\/cda\/news\/2009\/01\/30\/22277.html\">reports<\/a> that METI is going to run television commercial and train\/bus posters, also 101,000 posters will be distributed to schools and libraries all over the nation.<br \/>\nvia, again, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.itmedia.co.jp\/knowledge\/2009\/02\/post-9c8d.html\">Hideyuki Yoshikawa&#8217;s blog<\/a> from which we recently covered <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/29\/a-brief-history-of-japans-social-media-scene\/\">Japanese Social Media scene<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/31\/japanese-social-media-prism\/\">Social Media Prism<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Securina is an another virtual idol unit by puppets newly appeared into Japanese otaku scene, as a part of &#8220;Check PC&#8221; campaign backed by METI, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan. Shina, from Tokyo, who is unfussy and easygoing, likes Parfait. and Sena from Osaka, assertive and boyish, likes drive. The &#8220;Check PC&#8221;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/japanese-government-promotes-puppet-security-idol-securina\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japanese Government Promotes Puppet Security Idol &#8220;Securina&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[237,1817,2281,2456,2476,2995,3258,3983],"class_list":["post-2119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-animation","tag-japanese-government","tag-meti","tag-movie","tag-music","tag-puppet","tag-security","tag-virtual-idol","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}