The number of children under the age of 9 exceeds 1000 every year. There is a growing movement to utilize IT technology to watch over children in the community.
Shimane Prefecture is considering monitoring activities using My Number cards. In Fuchu City, Tokyo, a new monitoring service was introduced at all municipal elementary schools from January this year. The location information of a child with a small terminal is recorded when passing through a base station installed at an elementary school or city facility, or when passing a person who has installed the "Watcher App"