According to an NHK News report on June 9:
Although it is referred to here as the My Number Bill, its official title is the “Bill for Partial Revision of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information and the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures” [1], and it is a package with the amendment to the Act on the Protection of Personal Information. Consequently, the vote on the Act on the Protection of Personal Information was also postponed…. Well, well….
[1] http://www.cas.go.jp/jp/houan/189.html
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