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by jasode 1693 days ago
>Credit scores per se are less a thing in Japan but there are cross-issuer I-can't-believe-its-not-bureaus which have information sharing agreements, the dominant purpose of them being identifying fraudulent actors and account takeovers rather than credit risk (nearly zero in Japan, historically).

Not debating you but a random reddit commenter says a (pseudo) "credit score" in Japan is implementation and semantics. The CIC, Zengin, and JICC organizations' credit histories data functions very similar to a USA credit score.

https://old.reddit.com/r/japanlife/comments/goy0vv/are_credi...