The Japanese government has stopped issuing new health insurance cards as of Monday. It recommends the use of Individual Number ("My Number" in Japanese) Cards instead for healthcare access.

The badly misguided policy initiative to promote the so-called “maina hokensho," which is integrating the national health insurance card with the My Number Card, is a textbook example of how ...

as each card provides car rental insurance coverage in the form of a collision damage waiver. Not all credit card car rental insurance coverage is created equal. Primary coverage is preferable, ...

The policy statement should be reconsidered. An optional system for allowing My Number cards to double as health insurance certificates went into full-scale operation last autumn. The government ...