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Public service mesh

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This is an information coordination platform that speeds up the utilization and coordination of data held by governments. By utilizing and coordinating data held by governments through the public service mesh, we aim to further improve the service experience for residents and improve the efficiency and reduce the burden on local government employees.

Overview

The Public Service Mesh consists of two frameworks: "information utilization within local governments" and "information coordination between administrative agencies." It is an effort to implement these in a consistent design so that data held by administrative agencies can be utilized and coordinated safely and smoothly.
With regard to the "utilization of information within local governments," we will gradually make it possible for local governments to empirically use function to smoothly realize cross-business data extraction and processing and data linkage.
With regard to "information coordination among administrative agencies," based on the My Number System, the current infrastructure will be renewed through the provision of a common function equivalent to the current intermediate server, etc.
The following diagram illustrates these relationships.
For details on each of these, please refer to 's "Information Utilization within Local Governments" in and 's "Information Coordination among Administrative Agencies" in .

This figure shows the relationship between the public service mesh, front office services, local governments, and government ministries and agencies. The public service mesh (information utilization within local governments) links information between the front office services and local governments. The front office services include Mynaportal and its common API infrastructure and digital Authentication App. There are also common SaaS groups such as benefits support services and private company SaaS. The public service mesh (information linkage between administrative agencies) links information between administrative agencies such as government ministries and agencies and local governments. Through these data and information linkages within and among local governments and administrative agencies, residents can use online services such as online application procedures and receive push notifications.

Utilization of information within local governments

The Public Service Mesh (a service for utilizing information within a local government) is a data-linkage platform that facilitates the use of resident information held by a local government within the same local government by smoothly linking the standard compliance system and the front service, in addition to extracting and processing resident information within the local government across operations and systems in the implementation of administrative services. To be specific, while ensuring consistency with data requirements and linkage requirements for the integration and standardization of local governments' core business systems, we will gradually make it possible for local governments to use the necessary function on the government cloud from fiscal 2025.
It is important to reduce the burden on both citizens who take procedures and officials in charge of administrative work, and to develop an environment in which the necessary support can be received at the necessary time. In the past, local governments extracted and processed resident data according to use, but the use of local government information utilization services is expected to reduce the burden of work.

Information sharing among administrative bodies

Citizens and residents can skip the submission of documents in various administrative procedures by coordinating information required for administrative procedures among administrative agencies.
In the Public Service Mesh, in order to improve processing capacity to respond to the growing need for information coordination among administrative agencies based on My Number System, we will renovate the infrastructure to realize information coordination, including the provision of a common service (Inter-Agency Information Coordination Service (*)) to government agencies from January 2026.
*A function equivalent to an intermediate server, etc. (e.g., a function that mediates the transfer of duplicates of information held in each institution) that is currently built and operated individually by each institution.

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