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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Under Japan’s new My Number national identification system, set to go into effect next January, each registered resident is being assigned a unique lifetime ID number to facilitate integrated ...