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About My Number Card

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My Number Card can be used not only as a document to prove My Number, but also as a identity verification document, online application for various administrative procedures, and various private online transactions. There are more and more situations where My Number Card can be used in daily life. We are working to develop safe usage environments from a technical and operational perspective so that the people of Japan can use My Number for safe and secure.

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1. My Number Card

This is a plastic card with your name, address, date of birth, and sex printed on it. It can be used for free issue upon application by residents. The front side of the card can be used as a identity verification document with your name printed on it. In addition, the back side of the card has your My Number (12-digit number) printed on it, which can be used to confirm your My Number in the procedures prescribed by laws and ordinances or ordinance. It can be used to prove your identity online safely and securely using IC chips, making it a necessary tool in a digital society. We are working to promote the spread and use of this My Number Card.

2. How to apply for a My Number Card

Information on how to apply for a My Number Card can be found on the following page.
Apply for a My Number Card (My Number Card General Site)

In addition, My Number Card has an expiration date. For details, please check the expiration date and renewal of My Number Card and electronic certification from . Please also check the Digital Agency official note " My Number Card Expiration Q & amp; A (My Number Card and electronic certification) (Digital Agency official note) ", which provides information on the expiration date of My Number Card in Q & amp; A format.

3. My Number Card security

The details are introduced to the My Number Card security .

3.1. Suspension on loss

24 / 7 / 365 Call Center
If you lose your card, you can contact the Individual Number Card Call Center by phone and the card will be temporarily suspended to prevent a third party from impersonating your card.
*From January 2016 (2016), the temporary suspension of use of My Number Card will be accepted 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. For the Individual Number Card Call Center, please refer to the page of the General Site (My Number Card Telephone Inquiries).

3.2. My Number Card ticket

It is difficult to abuse because it has a face photo.
Even if you lose it, a third party cannot easily impersonate you.

Various measures make counterfeiting difficult
Characters are carved by laser and complicated patterns are applied to make it difficult to forge the face of the ticket.

3. 3. IC chips

Only the minimum necessary information is recorded on the IC chip.
Information with a high degree of privacy, such as "customs section information" and "pension related information", is not recorded.

Information recorded on the IC chip can be checked
You can check the information recorded on the IC chip by using the ticket display software and holding it over the IC card reader / writer.

Theft of recorded information is difficult
We take countermeasures against various methods that attempt to steal information, such as a function that automatically erases recorded information.

Security code required to use
A PIN number is set for each electronic certification and application. Even if you lose it, the third party who acquired it cannot impersonate you unless they know the PIN number. In addition, the PIN number will be locked if you enter it incorrectly more than a certain number of times.

Certification of international security standards
We have acquired ISO / IEC15408 certification, the international standard for IC card security.

4. Information on board the My Number Card

There are "JPKI-AP", "Ticket-Face AP", "Ticket-Face-Information-Entry Assistant AP", and "Juki AP" in the information on the My Number Card.

My Number Card application overview illustration. The JPKI-AP is equipped with a electronic certification for signing and a electronic certification for user certification. In addition, it is equipped with a ticket surface AP, a ticket surface matter entry auxiliary AP, a resident base AP, a ordinance use AP, and a platform.

Each information is explained below. Outline of the application in My Number Card, (PDF / 292 kb) also summarizes the outline, so please refer to it as appropriate.

JPKI-AP

It is equipped with electronic certification used for Japanese Public Key Infrastructure.

  • Electronic certification for signature
    Your name, address, date of birth, and gender are the four pieces of information that will be entered in the e-Tax Return. When you go through the various procedures, you can automatically read and write out these four pieces of information without having to enter them each time. (You can use an e-signature when filing an e-Tax Final Return or at a online application such as Child Care in Mynaportal.)
  • Electronic certification for user certification
    It can be used as a means to prove your identity. (You can log in to the Mynaportal where you can view your information, use the issue service at convenience stores, or use it as a health insurance card.)

Ticket face AP

  • Detection of falsification of ticket information in face-to-face meetings
  • Using Image Information as Evidence of identity verification in Face-to-Face
  • Information to be recorded
    1. Surface information: 4 Information and face photo images
    2. Back side information: My Number image

Auxiliary AP for entry of information on the face

My Number and 4 information can be checked (face-to-face or non-face-to-face) and used as text data
Note: My Number can only be used for clerical work based on the Number Act.

  • Information to be recorded and used
    1. My Number and 4 Information and Electronic Signature Data
    2. My Number and its electronic signature data
    3. 4. Information and its electronic signature data

Sumimoto AP

  • Record Resident Register Code
  • Resident Register Code can be used as text data for Juki Net administration

5. Smartphone My Number Card

My Number Card holders can use My Number Card by adding it to their Android phones or iPhones.
For details, please check the My Number Card on the smartphone.

6. Materials

Please refer to the leaflet below for safety information.

7. Others

Evaluation System for Procurement of Information Systems for Dissemination of My Number Card

In order to improve the convenience and operational efficiency of administration by promoting the use of My Number Card, which is the foundation of a highly convenient digital society in safe and secure, the MIC introduced a program in April 2020 to evaluate private sector that are making efforts to use My Number Card in the procurement of information systems, which are also the foundation of a digital society.

This program is based on the "Policies for Promoting the Spread of My Number Card and the Utilization of My Number" (decided by the Digital Government Cabinet Council on June 4, 2019).