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About My Number Card

My Number Card can be used not only as a document to certify My Number, but also as a identity verification document, online application for various administrative procedures, various online transactions in the private sector, etc. There are more and more scenes where My Number Card can be used in daily life. We are working on the development of safe usage environments from the viewpoints of technology and operation so that citizens can use safe and secure as a My Number.

Contents

1. My Number Card

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

2. How to apply for a My Number Card

You can check how to apply for a My Number Card on the following page.
Applying for My Number Card (My Number Card general site)

3. My Number Card security

3.1. Suspension on Loss

Established a call center 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
In the event of a loss, if you call the Individual Number Card Call Center, the card will be temporarily suspended to prevent impersonation by a third party.
*From January 2016 (2016), we will accept temporary suspension of use of the My Number Card 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. For information on the Individual Number Card Call Center, please refer to the page of the Telephone Inquiry (My Number Card General Site).

3.2. My Number Card Face

It is difficult to abuse because it comes with a face photo.
Even if it is lost, a third party cannot easily impersonate it.

Difficult to counterfeit due to various countermeasures
The characters are engraved by laser and the complex color patterns make it difficult to counterfeit the face of the ticket.

3. 3. IC chips

Only the minimum necessary information is recorded on the IC chip.
Highly private information such as "customs officer information" and "pension related information" is not recorded.

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

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

PIN is required to use
A PIN number is set for each electronic certification and each application. Even if you lose it, the third party who obtained it cannot impersonate you unless you know the PIN number. Also, the PIN number is locked if you enter it incorrectly more than a certain number of times.

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

4. Information on the My Number Card

The information installed in the My Number Card includes "JPKI-AP", "Face AP", "Face AP", and "Juki AP".

Overview of the My Number card application. A electronic certification for signature and a electronic certification for user identification are installed in JPKI-AP. In addition, a ticket AP, a ticket item entry assistant AP, a resident AP, a ordinance use AP, and a platform are installed.

The following is a description of each information. My Number Card Application Overview (PDF / 292 kb) also summarizes the overview, so please refer to it accordingly.

JPKI-AP

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

  • Electronic certification for signature
    It contains four pieces of information: name, address, date of birth, and gender. You can automatically read and write these four pieces of information without entering them each time you go through various procedures. (You can digitally sign your tax return on e-Tax or in online application such as child care in Mynaportal.)
  • Electronic certification for user identification
    You can use it as a means to prove your identity. (You can log in to a Mynaportal where you can view your information, use it as a certification issue service at a convenience store, or use it as a health insurance card.)

Face AP

  • Detection of falsification of information written on the face of the ticket in person
  • Use of Image Information as a Trail for Face-to-Face identity verification
  • Information to record
    1. Surface information: 4 information and the image of the face photo
    2. Back side information: My Number image

Certificate Entry Auxiliary AP

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

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

Juki AP

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

5. Materials

Please refer to the following leaflet for safety information.

6. Other

Evaluation Systems for Procurement of Information Systems for the Spread of My Number Card

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

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