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 My Number system may be one of the biggest white elephants the government has ever put together, a Board of Audit study showed on May 15. The central government has spent about 1.17 trillion yen ...

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 ...