Applicants for smartphone-based COVID-19 “vaccine passports” will have to present their My Number identification cards to confirm their identity, the Digital Agency said on Oct. 19, with no other ...

This photo taken in Tokyo on Dec. 1, 2025, shows a poster giving notice of the expiration of existing health insurance cards. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan on Tuesday fully transitioned to a system ...

Japan on Tuesday fully transitioned to a system that integrates health insurance card functions into the My Number identification cards, even as challenges remain in expanding its use. While existing ...

The health ministry reported 60 fresh cases of “My Number” identification cards being mistakenly linked with wrong health insurance information. These included four instances in which personal medical ...

With the distribution of the controversial My Number identification code only a few weeks away, hundreds of protesters marched through Tokyo's Shibuya district Saturday in a last-ditch effort to stop ...