tag: "Number" System

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Japan Post to consider introducing 7-digit alphanumeric address recognition for deliveries to Rakuten Group and other companies...

Nat 2025-05-26 No Comments

The top story in the Nikkei newspaper on May 5th was "Japan Post to consider introducing 26-digit alphanumeric address identification for deliveries to Rakuten Group and other companies", but experts have already started to comment on it. Professor Ichiro Sato of the National Institute of Informatics and editorial committee member Naoki Asakawa of Nikkei BP are both right. Of course, on the other hand...

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For private use of the "number"

Nat 2011-08-24 No Comments

In relation to the "number"/My Number system (it is unfortunate that many media outlets still refer to it as a "common number"), I have heard voices from various organizations saying things like, "Let's allow the "number" to be used by the private sector!" and "Let's get the four pieces of information (name, date of birth, gender, address)!" Originally, I was a data…

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Is the information sharing infrastructure of the "number" system complex?

Nat 2011-08-24 No Comments

In the context of the national ID system, the "number" system (sometimes mistakenly called the common number system), there is a system infrastructure called the "information sharing infrastructure." The orange box in the diagram below (from the interim report of the Cabinet Secretariat's Information Sharing Infrastructure Technology Working Group) is this. It seems that this part is the "information sharing infrastructure" that has been...

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