Immigration offices nationwide Sunday began issuing "zairyu" residence cards to foreign residents with the electronic signature of the justice minister, a Justice Ministry spokeswoman said Friday.
Due to a computer glitch, eight regional bureaus, six district immigration offices and 63 branch offices have issued about 130,000 residence cards without the signature since July 9, the first day immigration offices gave out the cards.
The ministry, which oversees the Immigration Bureau, fixed the glitch and ran the revised computer system Sunday, spokeswoman Shoko Sasaki said.