An increasing number of residents across Japan have been voluntarily returning their Individual Number Card, known more popularly as the My Number Card, since June as a spate of errors and privacy ...

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 ...

The government is taking steps to expand the use of the Individual Number Card, commonly known as the My Number Card, and get more people to acquire it. Seeing as administrative procedures need to be ...

At the beginning of 2019, taxpayers were beginning to wonder how to file the GSTR annual returns (GSTR 9 and 9C). As we reach the end of the year, taxpayers are still wondering when the ordeal of GSTR ...

As a freelancer in Japan, administrative tasks can be nightmarish at times. But that statement no longer applies to my taxes. This year, I was pleasantly surprised to discover I could pay them online ...

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 ...

This, it appears the fundamental mind set of the US banking system actively discourages the move to more efficient banking, such as the debit card system used in Canada. Hell, my girlfriend still goes ...

The Social Security System (SSS) is implementing a number coding system and modified service procedures in handling transactions in 61 selected branches nationwide. “The new procedures aim to regulate ...