Required Notifications at Your Local Municipal Office

Registering Your Address - **If you have received a new landing permission**: After entering Japan, please register your address at your local municipal office within 14 days. - **If you are moving**: When you move to a new address, you are required to notify your local municipal office of the change of address. Marriage Registration - **What you will need**: When submitting a marriage registration, certain documents are required. - **Validity in your home country**: You need to confirm whether your marriage in Japan is legally valid in your home country. Divorce Registration - **Validity in your home country**: It is important to confirm whether your divorce is legally valid in your home country. - **Concerns about unauthorized divorce filings**: Measures are necessary to prevent a divorce registration from being submitted without your knowledge. Death Registration - **What you will need**: Certain documents are required when submitting a death registration. - **Returning the Residence Card**: Please return the Residence Card of the deceased person. Seal Registration - **Procedure**: By registering your seal (hanko), it can be used as an officially recognized signature on formal documents. - **Seal Registration Certificate**: A certificate may be required for important contracts and other transactions. --- Source: Immigration Services Agency of Japan "Life and Work Guidebook" 第8版 https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/support/portal/guidebook_all.html This article was reorganized by ＳＩＡデジタルテクノロジー株式会社 based on the above source. ※This language version is a machine translation from the Japanese version (ＳＩＡデジタルテクノロジー株式会社).