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 ...

The so-called Murphy’s Law boils down to this maxim: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” This sardonic observation of U.S. society has spawned endless corollaries, about which many books have ...

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 ...

TOKYO -- The Japanese government is considering requiring the "My Number" individual number system to be linked with all savings and deposit account information of each individual in a legal revision ...

The Social Security and Tax Number System will be introduced. You will need an Individual Number for administrative procedures for social security, taxation and disaster response from January 2016.

The languages we speak influence the way that we see the world, in ways most of us may never recognize. For example, researchers report seeing higher savings rates among people whose native language ...