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Death and inheritance online service

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We will promote online procedures for death and inheritance.

Overview

As a result of death or inheritance, various administrative procedures and private procedures are required for the bereaved family. The necessary procedures differ depending on the deceased or the bereaved family, and there are a wide range of destinations for the procedures, so it is difficult to comprehensively understand the necessary procedures.
In the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of the 2023 (2023) Demographic Survey, the number of deaths in Japan exceeded 1.57 million, the highest number since the survey began, and the burden on society as a whole is expected to continue to increase.
As part of this initiative, in order to reduce the burden on bereaved families, improve convenience, and improve the efficiency of procedures in municipalities, etc., by promoting online digitalisation for procedures related to death and inheritance, the government will aim as follows.

  • Based on the policies reported by the Digital Government Subcommittee in FY 2020 (FY 2020), the GOJ will promote the following measures with the cooperation of relevant ministries and agencies and local governments.
  • Based on the verification test conducted in FY 2021 (FY 2021), the GOJ will organize issues in Digital Agency, together with Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and Ministry of Justice, toward the online digitalisation of procedures related to death (submission of death notifications and death certificates (Certificate of Postmortem Examination)), and will consider specific system designs for realizing the online digitalisation.
  • With regard to measures to reduce the burden of bereaved families, etc. related to the identification of legal heirs, the Digital Agency Government will organize points of discussion for social implementation together with the Ministry of Justice Government based on past discussions, and support their realization. Support for the identification of legal heirs using the Family Register Information Linkage System will be considered.