RE: Good News Everyone!!! (The joysplosion thread)
05-22-2013, 11:06 AM
I've been on quiet tenterhooks for the past week or two, waiting for placement information for the JET Programme to tell me where in Japan I'd gotten a job. Being able to accept the position was contingent on me revoking my Japanese nationality, which for some reason required two original copies of the family registry on which I am noted. As this would be my mother's, and because she never married a Japanese man, this would be my grandfather's registry.
Family registries are a weird bastard medley document which legitimises adoptions, births, deaths, marriages, changes of address, and divorces. Their storage and organisation is not centralised - any given individual's family registry will (usually) be in the municipal office of whichever prefecture the "head of the family" lived in. In my case, this was a rural ward in the Miyazaki Prefecture, near which next to no relatives of mine live.
In order to request copies of a family registry, you need a physical address in Japan (you can't request one from overseas). This meant we had to call my uncle in Tokyo, send him some forms we'd filled in, wait for him to apply for copies of the registry, and send them back to New Zealand. This took about three weeks and I've finally got my mitts on 'em, so I'm heading to the consulate on Friday to get the last of my paperwork done.
The only concern of my parents was that I might end up somewhere horrendous and have good grounds to reject the placement, and they didn't really want me to drop my nationality before I knew for sure.
My placement letter arrived today. I had no specific preferences for potential placement options, claiming I'd have an adventure wherever, but mentioned in the interview that I'd like "somewhere warm" and "somewhere I could head out and appreciate nature".
Miyazaki Prefecture just happened to be both of those. I'm kind of keen to know now if the JET Programme knew I was waiting for documents from that prefecture in the first place.
Either way I am super-excited because it's just over two months away now aaaaaaaaaaaah
Family registries are a weird bastard medley document which legitimises adoptions, births, deaths, marriages, changes of address, and divorces. Their storage and organisation is not centralised - any given individual's family registry will (usually) be in the municipal office of whichever prefecture the "head of the family" lived in. In my case, this was a rural ward in the Miyazaki Prefecture, near which next to no relatives of mine live.
In order to request copies of a family registry, you need a physical address in Japan (you can't request one from overseas). This meant we had to call my uncle in Tokyo, send him some forms we'd filled in, wait for him to apply for copies of the registry, and send them back to New Zealand. This took about three weeks and I've finally got my mitts on 'em, so I'm heading to the consulate on Friday to get the last of my paperwork done.
The only concern of my parents was that I might end up somewhere horrendous and have good grounds to reject the placement, and they didn't really want me to drop my nationality before I knew for sure.
My placement letter arrived today. I had no specific preferences for potential placement options, claiming I'd have an adventure wherever, but mentioned in the interview that I'd like "somewhere warm" and "somewhere I could head out and appreciate nature".
Miyazaki Prefecture just happened to be both of those. I'm kind of keen to know now if the JET Programme knew I was waiting for documents from that prefecture in the first place.
Either way I am super-excited because it's just over two months away now aaaaaaaaaaaah
peace to the unsung peace to the martyrs | i'm johnny rotten appleseed
clouds is shaky love | broke as hell but i got a bunch of ringtones
eyes blood red bruise aubergine | Sue took something now Sue doesn't sleep | saint average, day in the life of
woke up in the noon smelling doom and death | out the house, great outdoors
staying warm in arctic blizzard | that's my battle 'til I get inanimate | still up in the same clothes living like a gameshow
clouds is shaky love | broke as hell but i got a bunch of ringtones
eyes blood red bruise aubergine | Sue took something now Sue doesn't sleep | saint average, day in the life of
woke up in the noon smelling doom and death | out the house, great outdoors
staying warm in arctic blizzard | that's my battle 'til I get inanimate | still up in the same clothes living like a gameshow