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 ...

IT firm Fujitsu has suspended a system that uses My Number cards to issue residence certificates at local municipal offices and convenience stores after a resident was issued someone else’s ...

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 ...