On March 10, the Cabinet submitted a bill (source document in Japanese) to amend the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in the Administrative Procedure to the Diet. The bill would expand the application of individual ID numbers ("My Numbers") from the limited administrative purposes of taxation and social security. Under the proposal, My Numbers would be used for bank accounts and for municipal governments to manage individual immunization and health records.
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