Critical to the Japanese government’s ambition to create a digital society is a safe, secure and credible central database of citizen information. In theory, that is the purpose of the My Number ...
Japan’s new My Number identification cards were supposed to be a step forward for digitalization. Instead, numerous errors now risk exposing just how backwards we still are. Politics reporter Gabriele ...
This illustration shows a My Number individual identification card. Japan's Diet has enacted a set of bills to revise laws related to the "My Number" individual identification system, expanding the ...
The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...