Apple today announced that support for national My Number Card IDs in Japan will be coming to Apple's Wallet app "late next spring," marking the first expansion of digital IDs in Apple Wallet ...

Under the My Number ID card system, which was introduced in 2016, a 12-digit number is issued to each resident of Japan for use in social insurance, tax, and disaster countermeasures within the ...

Japan’s Individual Number Card – also known as My Number Card – is coming to Apple Wallet, a first for official identity documents outside of the US. The country clearly expects residents to ...

TOKYO, May 30 (Reuters) - Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab CEO Tim Cook agreed at the request of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to put Japan's "My Number" identification card functions onto ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about Japan's "My Number" national ID cards integrating driver's license information, to be offered from March 2025. Question ...

Issuance of the My Number Card started in January 2016. The COVID-19 pandemic that erupted in early 2020 revealed the slowness of administrative digitalization.

The Japanese government plans to use My Number social security and taxation identification cards to track the evacuation status of disaster victims, the Digital Agency said Tuesday. "We want to ...

Q: Why do the My Number card and its electronic certificate have different expiration dates? A: The Japanese government says that electronic certificates must be renewed every five years to ...

There is a lot of confusion among the public about Japan’s plan to integrate public health insurance cards with My Number identification cards and how the changes are being implemented.

A Nippon Foundation survey asked young Japanese for their opinions on the My Number ID cards, which have suffered a string of recent problems. Japan’s My Number ID card system continues to be ...

The Japanese government has stopped issuing new health insurance cards as of Monday. It recommends the use of Individual Number ("My Number" in Japanese) Cards instead for healthcare access.