It's more because entering addresses on web forms can be a major problem in Japan, there's no system to it. You have to use the correct font (half-width, full-width), and sometimes you have to write it twice, and sometimes with different characters, and much more.
And the other thing this system does is that the same code will work when you move somewhere else, as long as you re-register your address. Once.
The missing street address used to be a big problem. The postal delivery people had (and still have, of course) a way to look up your address - which is really just the property number, in the area where I live) and find it on a map. Normal people couldn't. But now we can enter the property number into e.g. google maps, and it'll find the actual location. Which, of course, means that you need to be online with your digital device. Which I wouldn't be until recently (I've got this pocket wifi now), unless I was in a wifi area.
In my home country I can easily find any location just by someone telling me the street name and number. No map needed, no online presence.. my home address has a property id, known by the city, and a street address, for everybody else. Japan is like that, just that the street address is missing..
It's more because entering addresses on web forms can be a major problem in Japan, there's no system to it. You have to use the correct font (half-width, full-width), and sometimes you have to write it twice, and sometimes with different characters, and much more. And the other thing this system does is that the same code will work when you move somewhere else, as long as you re-register your address. Once.
The missing street address used to be a big problem. The postal delivery people had (and still have, of course) a way to look up your address - which is really just the property number, in the area where I live) and find it on a map. Normal people couldn't. But now we can enter the property number into e.g. google maps, and it'll find the actual location. Which, of course, means that you need to be online with your digital device. Which I wouldn't be until recently (I've got this pocket wifi now), unless I was in a wifi area.
In my home country I can easily find any location just by someone telling me the street name and number. No map needed, no online presence.. my home address has a property id, known by the city, and a street address, for everybody else. Japan is like that, just that the street address is missing..