Great blog by Thomas Crampton! Thanks for the link. :)

Note to self: Order two dozen Crab Rangoon for that Crampton fellow.

Can anyone tell me whether there's a human flesh search engine or similar thing in Japan? Otherwise how possible someone can know where he lives by knowing only his name?

@Hui
He said that they could track him down through his name and/or by the company where he works. If he built too big a profile that might come from people in his company.

I will also email him about your question to see if he will answer it here. Really interested to know about the human flesh search engine question.

There is no exactly same thing as human flesh search engine in Japanese. But many people can be found on yellowbook, also map publisheres exists to try to plot each house owner's name (this may not work if you are living in apartment). It depends on how much you have been disclosing your privacy info on the web.

Also, from your daily photos on blogs, there are a lot of info you can trace like belonging company, metro station, restaurant and cafe to go often, etc.

@ Thomas and Akky

"many people can be found on yellowbook, also map publisheres exists to try to plot each house owner's name ... there are a lot of info you can trace like belonging company, metro station, restaurant and cafe to go often, etc"

Thanks for the explanations. If it's true that there's a combination of network data mining and social engineering to hunt people, giving the huge number of 御宅族, the mighty HFSE exists in Japan too.