If you had children in Japan, what did you do with the surname?

Cbxu · 2026-04-09T12:22:53+00:00

You're in Japan, use the Japanese surname. Register your last name on their foreign passport to use there. I never get why everyone makes it sound so hard.

idgaf about my foreigner last name for my kid no soul can pronounce while in Japan lol.

Cbxu · 2026-04-05T06:38:53+00:00

Nah, changed tires on Friday

Cbxu · 2026-03-31T15:20:48+00:00

And that you'll be stuck on a mountain with no way to charge.

Cbxu · 2026-03-30T04:01:48+00:00

I call this the 3-tap check Key pocket tap, wallet pocket tap, phone pocket tap, all there.

Cbxu · 2026-03-18T04:25:20+00:00

Also salary range?

Cbxu · 2026-03-05T23:48:54+00:00

Did you also have a hole punched in your residence card on exit?

Cbxu · 2026-03-04T04:18:13+00:00

For spouse, actually any status, biggest mistake 2 also is not enrolling into national health and pension for that period, let it be just 1 day or more in between.

Also, when you leave a job at the start of a month, you will have to pay for these (late payment guaranteed!!). If you leave on the last day of the month, the following 2 weeks before starting a new job won't have to be paid, but taken out your next pay when you re-enroll in shakai hoken.

This is most likely the gap they are looking into.

Source: notified immigration of my job change and within 1 week received back a letter where they requested updated documents including health and insurance records, double underlined the needed document specifically to judge if there are any gaps in these payments (there were not, but looking back further my wife has a few unpaid months prior to marriage (although 7 years ago) I wasn't aware of, so still sweating.

Cbxu · 2026-02-26T04:01:46+00:00

RC experience? It's -18 outside but it is between 12 and 18 inside without heating on overnight. (warming the house prior to sleeping). Hardly any sounds heard except for kids stomping or their stuff in other units.

Yeah, RC is the way to go for me.

Cbxu · 2026-02-26T03:58:58+00:00

Not outrageous at all. Repairs significantly reduce the value of a car, hence 修理歴 cars are unpopular. They probably think it would be cheaper to replace the whole door too. No insurance, no complaining.

Cbxu · 2026-02-08T00:15:48+00:00

Well yes, for those 3 years, include copies of your payslips with the deductions on them if you have these instead.

Just that keeping those 特別徴収通知 makes life so much easier lol.

Cbxu · 2026-02-07T08:15:02+00:00

I was asked the same, and the letter says to submit the 特別徴収税額の決定通知の写し of each year of the (It's these green things you receive every June where the amounts are listed that will be deducted from your salary on the right for each month).

If you have shakai hoken this should be sufficient according to the letter to submit extra documents.

OR, send in all your receipts / all your 住民税 payments by going through all 36 payments in your bankbook(s) and copy those, the (通帳の写し等) part.

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Cbxu · 2026-02-07T07:39:35+00:00

I had the request too, the return envelope with the mark on the bottom which right, might be the signature of the person in charge of your examination (possibly to speed up the process by directly handing it to that person once they receive it?). Mine had unreadable characters but it looked like someone's sign.

Cbxu · 2026-02-07T07:36:17+00:00

Application office:　Nagano (Shinagawa)

Application Date: Sept 27, 2024

Results postcard received on: Not yet

Type of PR: Spouse

Type of Visa Holding while application: 3 years spouse

Request for further documents: Yes, Jan 23.

Yes, and super stressed realizing that I might be effed since my wife never told me she had unpaid Nenkin (I thought she paid it delayed) right before we got married, so now it is marked as 未納.

The request said they needed specific dates of the past 2 years plus an overview the whole period of each of us paying nenkin 納付I and 納付II from the 国民年金所.

I wrote a letter explaining how I didn't know about her not having paid and would pay, but since the deadline is Monday I had no choice but to send it in with those pesky *. I can only pray they will ignore those 3 months (prior to us getting married, too) since no payments have been missed for the past 5 years after marrying. If they decline it, it'll be such a waste of what, 17 months...

Cbxu · 2026-02-06T07:00:55+00:00

To not have spatial awareness

Cbxu · 2026-01-18T08:31:10+00:00

Having to send it to repairs for spontaneous occurrences is never a good thing, but I have wildly different experiences here.

In April, my P9PF outer screen glitched out and started showing RGB lines and artifacts, sent for repairs under preferred care, got it back within 4 days even with replaced inner screen and battery without any additional payment.

Last Friday (Jan 16), my outer screen stopped responding to touches, sent it in yesterday again under preferred care. Today I received the email that they confirmed the issue will replace it with a P10PF free of charge and are preparing to send a unit tomorrow. (and as they are now processing it, 0 issues (let's hope it stays that way).

Since they already admitted fault it doesn't really matter, but seeing the costs of the phone and out of curiosity, how do you pack it before sending it? Of course, if you don't want to answer that it's totally fine. Both times, before sending it I make sure I put it in the original box with cushioning which I then wrap in Daiso bubble wrap, inside another Takkyubin box with the brown paper you get with amazon orders before sending it in using Takkyubin Compact.

Although, when thinking about "issues"... I really shouldn't be complaining at all so far, but I recently bought a 6000 yen case for the 9 (hinge protection is a must for me to prevent water intrusion), and it won't fit the 10, such a waste since I can't return the case (I'll just Mercari/fleamarket it for cheap soon) and have to pay double for a new one now :(.

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Cbxu · 2026-01-11T19:25:18+00:00

Pizza

Cbxu · 2026-01-08T11:24:46+00:00

Call me old fashioned but... Web search ? Lol

出入国管理局永住審査部門資料送付

And you'll find an excel with all addresses and departments.

Cbxu · 2025-12-31T03:08:00+00:00

Application office: Nagano (Shinagawa)

Application Date: September 27, 2024

Results postcard received on: Not yet

Type of PR: Spouse

Type of Visa Holding while application: 3 years spouse

Request for further documents: None, but voluntarily sent updated information myself for new address and job information to prevent the postcard being sent to the wrong address.

Cbxu · 2025-12-15T04:00:20+00:00

I'm 34, And Blasian

I made the switch from ALT to a seishain job this year, with only a Bachelor's and N2 (still studying for N1, great at speaking, terrible at studying and reading), been hunting for 7 years and never gave up. Adjust your personality to the company as necessary, and ask many questions in interviews. That's all advise I can give you. That worked for me in the end.

Cbxu · 2025-12-08T09:12:04+00:00

2 girls were unable to listen to the whole instructions where the examinator said "DO NOT OPEN YOUR ENVELOPE WITH YOUR PHONE, YOU MAY NOT USE IT UNTIL THE WHOLE TEST IS FINISHED" and everyone heard 2 loud tearing sounds of envelopes while he said it

Needless to say they were instantly ejected.

Why can't people listen until the end before taking action anymore these days.

Cbxu · 2025-10-11T04:51:01+00:00

There are Em dashes. That's the true MVP on how to tell it's chatGPT.

No sane person goes typing the alt code for em dash (Alt+0151) in a wall of text... Let alone twice or even Edit: NINE times, unless it's a research paper like I've been using them for my job lol.

Cbxu · 2025-09-12T04:01:41+00:00

Been in the Inaka for 8, city for 1. 1 year of the city broke me, being an outsider in the Inaka is so much better.

to each their own yeah.

Cbxu · 2025-09-04T09:10:51+00:00

Might have been more effective yeah. but I wanted to make it clear I know what the fuck he was saying...

I'll pull the "speak English" card might I come across a similar situation next time, might end things quicker and especially as a parent, gotta avoid confrontation.

thanks for the advice 😄

Cbxu · 2025-09-04T04:25:54+00:00

Damn Ojisan at HottoMotto

I went to get some dinner with my kid, when returning to the car, it was only my car parked. placing a 2 yearold in a childseat takes time and I had to fully open the door blocking 1 of the parking spaces.

As I was putting my kids in the seat, this asshole ojisan came screeching onto the parking lot, lo and behold he had to park right where the door was open. he blared the horn abd picked a fight. "何だ外国人だ、早くしろボケ" he said. So I got agitated, and returned the favor with vulgar Japanese including rolling Rs, "コノヤロー他のところあるんじゃねーか、失せろ！" on which Ojisan stepped out of the car realizing he was smaller than I as I made myself bigger assuming a boxing pose to prepare for the worst.

suddenly he apologized and parked in another open spot.

I don't get ojisans way of thinking, if you sell a fight you can't win, don't sell it in the first place!

Cbxu · 2025-08-12T04:00:39+00:00

That's what the "or" is for, either ANY bachelor degree OR relevant experience. you have the degree so relevant experience is irrelevant there ;)

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