Japanese ID Card

In 2016, the Japanese Government announced that each resident would have a personal identification number. Substituting to some extent for a national ID card, which doesn’t exist in Japan, the system My Number enables the Japanese Government to:

identify residents
and simplify administrative procedures.
Upon a citizen’s request this number can be associated to a plastic card called My Number Card. The first My Number Card would always be issued centrally by the Japanese government but the updates with new addresses would be managed by each City Hall.