智能卡可以通过驾驶证确定顾客年龄

　　Japan's finance ministry has already given permission to an age-identifying smart card called "taspo" and a system that can read the age from driving licenses.

　　日本财政部已经批准了taspo年龄鉴定智能卡的使用，同时这种面部识别系统可以通过驾驶证确定顾客年龄。

　　Yamamoto said the system could correctly identify about 90 percent of the users, with the remaining 10 percent sent to a "grey zone" for "minors that look older, and baby-faced adults," where they would be asked to insert their driving license.

　　山本表示，该系统可以正确识别出90%的用户年龄，而剩余10%的少数派“看起来老态的年轻人和拥有娃娃脸的成年人”将被发往专设的“灰色区域”，这时这些顾客会被要求插入驾驶证。

　　Underage smoking has been on a decline in Japan, but a health ministry survey in 2004 showed 13 percent of boys and 4 percent of girls in the third year of high school--those aged 17 to 18--smoked every day.

　　虽然日本的未成年人吸烟数量有所下降，但是

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