Koseki family registers in Japan maintain information about Japanese citizens and their households, providing proof of identity in the same way that documents like birth certificates do in some other ...

One of the features, or, depending on your perspective, problems of the koseki (Japan’s family registration system) is that it embeds deeply into the legal system a very basic distinction between ...

We received a question from a lawyer in New York. He married a Romanian citizen recently who, he has now discovered, was married in 2009 to a Japanese man in Kagoshima. He would like to hire a ...