On September 25, 2020, Kōno Tarō, minister for administrative reform, announced that the Cabinet Office’s regulatory reform hotline would be renamed Tatewari 110-ban, the vertical-division emergency line. 110 is the police emergency number in Japan. He said that about 5,000 messages had already come in and were being read.
By 6 p.m. on November 19, 2020, the count was 7,191. At a press conference the next day, asked how many had led to action, he answered: Ima wa nai desu ne. None for now.