Parents, supporters call for change in registration of newborns

Monday 21st April, 02:55 AM JST

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spudman at 09:39 AM JST - 21st April

And one day the Japanese Government joined the 21st century in terms of social responsibility, but not just yet!
jinjapan at 10:28 AM JST - 21st April

and they wonder why there is a problem with the birth rate. things like just add to the problem. hopefully the govt. will wake up some day.
Hikozaemon at 10:44 AM JST - 21st April

Foreigners have known about the oddities of the juminhyo system ever since the first Japanese wife of a visitor received a visit from city social services explaining benefits available to single mothers.

The current system is almost unchanged from the Meiji period, and as much as some people may wish that we may simply shut our eyes and return to a time when divorce was next to impossible and foreigners were only tourists and short-term educators, the fact is that things like this show how unworkable the current system has become - it needs a top to bottom overhaul. If the government really wants to start up a national ID card system, it might be a good opportunity to reform the entire citizen registration system, and to integrate the system with immigration's upcoming reformed system of registration.

Peace
jerseyboy at 12:34 PM JST - 21st April

Hiko...Excellent post. Unfortunately, spudman is probably correct as well. Japan isn't quite ready to move past the Meiji period. I mean why use scientific means like DNA testing to determine paternity, when you can use something much simpler -- the 300-day rule? And to think out taxes pay big bucks to bureaucrats to come up with such utter nonsense.
sincity at 10:28 AM JST - 22nd April

I agree, but I do ask you to understand that they have a 44 year supply of the blue form required for the proper administration of the 300 day rule, but have yet to form a parliamnetary subcommitte on the thonry problem of what colour to use for a DNA testing form.

Also, will those barbarians married to Children of the Gods please refrain from diluting the gene pool?

Thank you, and enjoy your stay. Also, please go home.

;)

I worked at a national university for years. They only computerised most forms, etc. in 2004. These people still handwrite government forms. They're antedeluvian, in principle, and in practice.

The cavemen of the industrial world. Banzai.