Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Bloomberg) -- Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida apologized for problems with new national ID cards but said he wouldn’t ...

Japan’s Individual Number Card – also known as My Number Card – is coming to Apple Wallet, a first for official identity documents outside of the US. The country clearly expects residents to take some ...

Japan is setting up ID card readers with face recognition authentication provided by US-based computer vision platform SAFR. Developed by system integrator Nextware, the My Number Card Reader will ...

iPhones running iOS 13 will be able to scan NFC chips in Japanese identity cards. This is as a result of Apple’s decision to allow broader access to the iPhone’s NFC chip by third-party apps. The app ...