More than half a year after Japan stopped issuing conventional health insurance cards for integration with the My Number social security and taxation ID system, the usage rate of new My Number health ...

The Japanese government will no longer issue health insurance cards from Monday, instead integrating them with My Number cards. The health ministry said people with current health insurance cards that ...

Starting Dec. 2, Japan's conventional health insurance cards will no longer be usable. However, the Ministry of Health, Labor ...

There is a lot of confusion among the public about Japan’s plan to integrate public health insurance cards with My Number identification cards and how the changes are being implemented. While the ...

This illustration shows a My Number individual identification card. TOKYO -- Some 57% of people in Japan oppose abolishing the current health insurance cards in favor of unifying them with "My Number" ...