{"id":8392,"date":"2023-04-11T19:01:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T11:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=8392"},"modified":"2023-04-10T23:24:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T15:24:55","slug":"japan-to-add-romanization-to-names-on-my-number-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2023\/japan-to-add-romanization-to-names-on-my-number-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan to add romanization to names on My Number cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Japanese government has reportedly decided to add romanization for names on My Number cards, starting next year (2024). My Number cards — also known as Individual Number cards (or kojin bangō kādo \/ 個人番号カード) are a form of national ID. <\/p>\n

Here’s basically what they look like now (without a space for romanization):
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But I haven’t been able to find any more specific information yet. <\/p>\n

I wrote the authorities with My Number cards for clarification. I wanted to know what romanization system My Number Cards will use: Hepburn, Kunrei-shiki, or something else? Or will people be able to choose any system they want or to choose from a list of government-approved systems? <\/p>\n

I also requested links to any articles\/announcements about this in English or Japanese. <\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the person who politely responded did not have any information about this beyond what I submitted. <\/p>\n

Source: one small mention at the end of this article: Pronunciation of Japanese Personal Names to be Regulated by Planned Law Revision<\/a>, Japan News<\/em> (from the Yomiuri Shimbun<\/em>), February 18, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Japanese government has reportedly decided to add romanization for names on My Number cards, starting next year (2024). My Number cards — also known as Individual Number cards (or kojin bangō kādo \/ 個人番号カード) are a form of national … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,29,13,126,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-japanese","category-kanji","category-romaji","category-romanization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8392"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8401,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8392\/revisions\/8401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}