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 ...

An administrative commission instructed the Digital Agency to improve measures to verify IDs and protect personal information after bank account data for hundreds of people were mistakenly registered ...

The new number system code would be at a telecom circle or state level. Fixed-line users will soon be required to dial a full 10-digit number, even for local calls, if the government accepts the ...

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 ...

Starting in October, it is now possible to apply online for public childcare assistance at a growing number of municipalities. Parents are able to easily apply for such aid as child support allowance, ...