Bar fight.

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Caption: Activists painted bar codes on their faces in a protest against the Japanese government's new computerized national registry. Under the Basic Residential Register Network System, all citizens have been assigned 11-digit numbers. The registry will make it easier to carry out government business, officials say, by allowing government employees to retrieve basic information, such as name, address, sex, and date of birth from a central database. But, polls show, many Japanese worry that their personal information could be misused by the government, or stolen by computer hackers. Japan has kept...