A bill to revise the resident register law to create a citizen-numbering system was approved by a Lower House panel Friday with support from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, its junior coalition partner, the Liberal Party, and New Komeito.
Under the numbering system, all Japanese would be given a 10-digit number and have their name, date of birth, sex and address registered on a computer network of city, town and village municipalities.
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