Relo Japan

To start, a reminder that Japan Info Swap is a part of The H&R Group, which provides a wide range of real estate, relocation, staffing, and life-enrichment service in Japan. This blog was created to help communicate the information, knowledge, and expert advice of the H&R Group family of companies to their clients. The relocation process requires varying degrees of personal information, from immigration documents to housing contracts or driver’s licenses, so we have a lot on hand during our client’s relocation process, and our clients provided all of it to us, usually by email. As a result, we are understandably a bit paranoid about how this information is sent, stored, and eventually deleted.  We can do a lot on our end. Still, we would feel a whole lot better if we could start on our client’s end instead and accomplish our work with full end-to-end encryption of the personal information essential to completing the services initiated to us by our clients. What is Encryption?  Encryption changes information in such a way as to make it unreadable without a “key” that allows the information to be put back into its original, readable form.  Encryption allows us to securely protect data and ensure that only authorized parties…