{"id":21732,"date":"2016-10-22T16:13:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T14:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/?p=21732"},"modified":"2020-09-26T21:57:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T19:57:09","slug":"japans-koseki-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/japans-koseki-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan’s koseki system"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The koseki is Japan\u2019s family registration system. All legally significant transitions in a person\u2019s life \u2014 births, deaths, marriages, divorces, adoptions, even changes of gender \u2014 are supposed to be registered in a koseki; in fact, registration is what gives them legal effect. An extract of a person\u2019s koseki serves as the Official Document that confirms to the Rest of the World basic details about their identity and status.<\/p>\n

Need to prove when you were born? Koseki extract. Need to show you have parental authority to apply for a child\u2019s passport? Koseki extract. Want to commit bigamy? Good luck; the authorities will refuse to register a second marriage if your registry shows you are still encumbered with a first.<\/p>\n

Compared to \u201cevent-based\u201d Official Documents (birth certificates, divorce decrees and so forth) that prevail in places like America, the koseki is more accurate. An American can use a marriage certificate to show he got married on a particular date in the past but would struggle to prove he is still married today. A koseki extract, on the other hand, can do just that.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: Japan’s koseki system: dull, uncaring but terribly efficient | The Japan Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The koseki is Japan\u2019s family registration system. All legally significant transitions in a person\u2019s life \u2014 births, deaths, marriages, divorces, adoptions, even changes of gender \u2014 are supposed to be registered in a koseki; in fact, registration is what gives them legal effect. An extract of a person\u2019s koseki serves as the Official Document that … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34,39,147,11,15],"tags":[300,296],"class_list":["post-21732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-culture","category-history","category-interesting-links","category-miscellaneous","category-politics","tag-processed","tag-published"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prY0k-5Ew","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3138,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/the-horror-of-germanys-war\/","url_meta":{"origin":21732,"position":0},"title":"The horror of Germany’s war","author":"Limbic","date":"December 17, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I have posted before (here and here) on the horrors of Dresden, W. 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