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Japan’s Quiet Reset on Digital Trust Starts with a Wallet, Not an App

Japan does not usually announce digital revolutions with fireworks. It prefers infrastructure moves that look boring at first and then quietly become unavoidable. The joint announcement by NTT Docomo Global and Accenture to build the Universal Wallet Infrastructure sits squarely in that category. At a surface level, this is about a next generation platform that lets companies and public institutions issue, manage, and verify authentication data and tokens securely. Identity credentials, permissions, proofs, access rights. All the things no consumer ever wakes up excited about. But beneath that surface is something much bigger. This is Japan trying to fix its data trust problem at the foundation level, not with another consumer facing layer. The timing is not accidental. Japan is deep into digitization, but it is also dealing with a…