JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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tmarie-
I'm mixed (Japanese and French) and I've never had problems because of my heritage. My kids are mixed and they have not had problems. My husband and I do not share the same last name and it has never been a problem.
I'm not saying no one in my situation would ever have problems but I myself have never had problems..
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miamum-
that's funny.. but i'm sure it isn't funny to those who have the problem.
and i completely understand about the Rs and Ls problem here in japan :)
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fishy
why is it not good to have choices? there are plenty of countries that allow couples to have separate last names and why can't Japan do it? there are plenty of examples and Japan wouldn't be the first to do it if they ever decided to do so.
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fishy
I guess basically it is good to have choices. Different things work for different people/couples. People who don't want different last names shuold just share the last name with their spouse and people who want to keep their maiden name should be allowed to.. is my opinion (and I believe most of the people here on the thread are basically saying the same thing) :)
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miamum-
By the way, you can actually pur your last name AND your husband's name on your kids's passports-- for example, if your son is John, and his last name is Smith (his father's last name), but your last name is Tanaka, they can put John Smith (Tanaka) on the kids' passport :) You'd have to ask when you renew/apply for the passport, though, and I'm not sure if that was an option long time ago, but my kids' Japanese passports have both my last name and husband's last name.
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fishy
So, you can use Japanese passport to leave Japan and use another country's passport to enter the destination country? I thought you'd have to use the same passport.. Maybe not, huh.
When my son first entered Japan to reside (moved back from the states), he only had his U.S. passport and I had my Japanese passport. I showed the immigration official his Japanese birth certificate and a copy of koseki registry to prove he is my child and he has a Japanese citizenship, but they told him (a baby!!) that he'd be illegal if he stayed in Japan over 90 days without going to the Japanese immigration office to change his status and get a Japanese passport.. That was shocking to me.
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Zenny-
I was told by the Narita immigration official that when you leave from Japan and intend to return to Japan, always use the Japanese passport. The first time my first child travelled to Japan(that was before he got his Japanese passport and he only had his U.S. passport) even though I had the copy of his Japanese birth certificate (syussei shomei), they gave him a 90-day visa.. can you believe that??? Since then, my kids always use their Japanese passport as their country of residence is Japan.
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Disillusioned-
And legally, your kids could have your last name after you and your ex divorced. If your ex refused, it wasn't because of the law, it was just because she wanted what she wanted..
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Disillusioned-
The kids can keep your last name. They can change to their mother's maiden name. Either way should be fine and people usually talk what'd work for the children. Even if the kids change their last name to their mother's maiden name, they can still inherit their father's property/money because regardless of the last name, they are still the children of the father if it makes sense to you.
If both parents are Japanese, kids can remain in the same koseki even after they change their last name to their mother's. I mentioned in one of my posts but the last names and the koseki registries don't always go together. The mother can also make a completely new koseki registry and put the kids in her new koseki, not her parents/family's.
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fishy
yeah, that's what they did to my children :(( looks like they have super long first names.. I'm thinking about going to the family court to remove the middle name part.. what a pain in the neck!!!!
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fishy
there ARE men who accept wife's last name (my sister's husband did). so, either way, both men and women can still inherit their own parents' money/property.
Also, men can accept wife's last name and they don't have to be in the wife's koseki. THEY CAN MAKE A NEW KOSEKI using the wife's last name :)
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fishy
when a man accepts his wife's last name, the head of the family on koseki register is the wife. when a woman accepts her husband's last name, the head of the family on koseki register is the husband. when a woman decides to accept her husband's last name, her name goes in to his family's koseki registery, HOWEVER, she can still inherit HER parents' money/property. when a man decides to accept his wife's husband's last name, his name goes into her family's koseki registery, however, he can still inherit HIS parents' money/property.
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miamum
Zenny has already said it but a foreign national cannot have his/her own koseki. If you are married to a Japanese person, your Japanese spouse is the head of the koseki register whether your spouse is a man or a woman. Or, if your Japanese spouse is still in his/her parents' koseki, you are in your spouse's family's koseki (probably your father-in-law is the head of the family on the koseki). If you and your Japanese spouse have different last names, your full name with your maiden name is listed on the koseki, and that's all about it. As a foreigner, you are not on the resident certificate, either (jumin-hyo) unless you go to the government office (city/ward office). All you have as an official document is an alien registration.
If you take your Japanese spouse's last name in Japan, you can still keep your maiden name in your home country and your kids can have the Japanese name in Japan and your maiden name in your home country. They can have 2 passports and can have different last name on each passport.
If you take your spouse's Japanese last name when you get married, you cannot change it back to your maiden name unless you submit papers at a family court unless you change it back within 3 months after officially getting married.. but it is possible to change it back if you really want to.
For Japanese/Japanese couples.. People CAN use their maiden name at work and etc, it's just that the koseki and other official documentations, they have to use the official last name. My sister's husband (Japanese) actually took my sister's last name when they got married by the way :)
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miamum-
Not sure about that.. I have a Japanese cousin who married a Japanese man and they lived in New York, had children there, the kids have dual citizenship and they both have middle name.. I'll have to ask her what they did with the middle name when they registered the kids' birth in Japan.. hmm.
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fishy
zenny is right.. no problems for taxes.
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ACrowe-
Oh I can't agree with you more.. My kids have middle names and we were told that Japan doesn't recognize middle names.. :( So they put first and middle name together.. makes their names super long. The kids use first name only in school but official papers have their first and middle name put together and I hate it.
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tkond2-
agree.. people who want to keep their last name should be allowed to do so, couples who want to use the same last name should do so... shouldn't be anyone else's business..
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fishy
i love my husband and it has nothing to do his last name by the way..
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fishy
my husband and I have different last names.. people who know us know we are married.. besides, why do we have to tell the whole world we are married?
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miamum-
yes :)
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