What a job:
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSTRE54C22R20090513

"Internet search engine Google said it would reshoot all Japanese pictures for its online photo map service, Street View, using lower camera angles after complaints about invasion of privacy.

Google's Street View, which offers 360-degree views of streets around the world using photos taken by cruising Google vehicles, has already run into privacy complaints in other countries and activists have tried to halt the service in Japan.
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More information on official Google Japan blog http://googlejapan.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-post_5855.html

Thanks Tom, I added an update!

Nice pictures, Tom. They are using Toyota, not Opel. Fine :)

In Japan big probrem face Google is human rights issue
GSV useing for discrimination
Minority in Japan shown their home or office
Google know about it but nothing to do to thinking about it
GSV became tool for discrimination in Japan