OIDF & OIDF-J welcome the Japanese Digital Agency, West Japan Railway Company, and the National Institute of Informatics’ Student VC Project
Translated from the OIDF-J announcement. The OpenID Foundation and the OpenID Foundation Japan would like to express our sincere welcome to the pilot project for the social implementation of services for students using verifiable credentials, which was conducted and announced in March 2025 by the Digital Agency, West Japan Railway Company, and the National Institute […]
OpenID Summit Tokyo 2024 and Celebrating 10 Years of OpenID Connect
OpenID Foundation Japan (OIDF-J) hosted the OpenID Summit Tokyo 2024 in Shibuya Tokyo on Friday, January 19, 2024 with over 250 in attendance. The OpenID Foundation (OIDF) was thrilled to be a part of the Summit that included contributors from Japan and abroad presenting on current digital identity, security, and digital wallet topics. Gail Hodges, […]
Registration Open for OpenID Foundation Hybrid Workshop in Tokyo, Japan on Thursday, January 18, 2024
Published December 4, 2023, revised January 8, 2024 to include workshop agenda. The OpenID Foundation is pleased to announce a hybrid workshop hosted by KDDI in Tokyo, Japan on Thursday, January 18, 2024. This workshop precedes the 2024 OpenID Foundation – Japan Summit. Please note that registration is required for those participating in-person as well […]
OpenID Summit Tokyo 2020 and Side Events Registrations Are Open
Every four years, OpenID Foundation Japan has an educational meeting called “OpenID Summit Tokyo”. The next one is coming up on January 24, 2020. This year it will be at a brand new venue called Shibuya Stream Hall in Shibuya, Tokyo. The schedule is as follows: OpenID Summit Tokyo 2020 Jan 24, 2020 @ Shibuya […]
NTT docomo is now an OpenID Provider
The largest mobile operator in Japan, NTT docomo, which covers approximately 50% of Japanese population, started offering OpenID authentication on March 9. Every docomo user has an identifier called i-modeID. Using this, users can single sign-on to mobile sites using docomo handsets, making one-click payment and other authenticated actions. These kind of features fueled the […]
Government of Japan started accepting OpenID
Japanese government opened an OpenID Enabled Policy proposal and discussion site.
OpenID Japan Launches with 32 Member Companies
The OpenID Foundation is pleased to share that OpenID Japan has launched with 32 members including merchants, portals, educational institutions, insurance companies, manufacturing companies, airlines, and banks. This announcement is significant for several reasons: The number and breadth of industries represented by the new members The use of OpenID by member companies for commercial transactions […]
mixi Supports OpenID with the Simple Registration Extension
Last week mixi, the largest social network in Japan, become an OpenID Provider for all of their fifteen-million plus users; one in five Japanese web users are on mixi. While they are another large OpenID Provider — which some argue is a bad thing — they are the first large OpenID Provider to also support […]