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Candidate Hiwatashi, who attracted attention through an online campaign to defeat him and other controversy, lost the Saga gubernatorial election. It was an unexpected defeat despi…
The subject of this New Year’s installment 3 is, as promised in the previous article, a “visionary” [1] growth strategy. Japan’s greatest current problem is said to be…
On October 17, 2014, an Executive Order [1] was issued to improve the security of consumer financial transactions. Its 3 main provisions are as follows. Section 1. Securing Payment…
The Social Security and Tax Number System (My Number System) has a mascot character whose public naming contest I previously announced. Its name was revealed on Friday the 29th[1].…
The government will establish a call center within the Cabinet Office around October for the “My Number System,” which manages social security benefits and tax payments using 1 per…
The mascot character for the Social Security and Tax Number System (My Number System) was selected on May 30. Here it is. [マイナンバーの広報用ロゴマーク参照] In addition to appearing on posters an…
What is social security? To me, social security means a society in which people without a disadvantage support those who have acquired one. That is the fundamental idea behind insu…
This is important, so I am reposting it. From Professor Okumura of the University of Tokyo. Hirokazu Okumura on Monday Here are the “Three Requirements for Open Data” that I have o…
This article came through from NHK News Web. Snowden: “Let’s Stop the Collection of Personal Information” It says that he called for people to “make governments stop collecti…
There is a question of whether My Number should be kept secret. We have been discussing it here, and considering human behavior, a contrarian view has emerged that it might actuall…
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