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 ...

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 ...

TOKYO -- Japan's Supreme Court ruled that the "My Number" individual identification system, which integrates the management of information related to social security, taxes and other procedures, is ...