Sony Bank Open Account

The web versions, for no good reason, is only for applicants with kanji in their legal name. This version works just fine, and can accept MyNumber. For some reason, the English version is confined to this useless app which can’t properly use the cameras on any iPhone model made in the past 2 and a half years, and thus can’t work. It also can’t accept a simple photo upload from the good camera app (the free one that comes with the phone and actually works) for no good reason, and also doesn’t support manually filling things in. Sony should be ashamed to have this stay so low functioning for this long. It’s been broken forever, it seems. Also just let folks who can read Japanese fill out the web form regardless of whether they’re foreign or not. What year is it?! This was a dealbreaker for me and has me going to a different bank now.

App keeps telling me my card is expired when it isn’t. Also refuses to scan my gender from the zairyu card although the scan is perfectly clear. Since it doesn’t scan the gender I can’t proceed with the application.

Unlike at least one other previous reviewer, this worked totally fine for me. Very easy to use.

Leaving this review so others don’t waste their time. Take a look at your cards, are they PERFECT mint condition? Any wear and tear will lead to rejection of your application and all the time you spent scanning and filling in personal data will become wasted effort.

Won’t read my residence card because it thinks it’s expired….(it’s not)

How to change from Japanese to English????

Please let there be another way to register for the bank. This app doesn’t work as it won’t let me scan my residence card.

Is impossible to scam photos in the app the images only burry

Please don’t. They are liars. They will screw you over.

The app does the job in English; when successful, all the rest arrives in Japanese: letters, instructions, online banking apps... I don’t see the link t of advertising that all can be done in English