Category: Baby admin

When a baby (aka-chan) is born in Japan, he or she automatically assumes the nationality of his or her parents. If one of the parents is Japanese, the baby becomes Japanese. Since I’m British (Scottish!) and my husband is American, and we’d stay in Japan for more than 60 days after our daughter was born, we…

The past few weeks have involved a lot of feeding, sleeping, pooping – and paperwork! It may come as no surprise that registering the birth of a baby (aka-chan) in Japan is an admin-heavy process (particularly when the baby is non-Japanese; more on this later). Had I done a bit more homework in advance, I could’ve…