birth registration form

Father or mother

• Within 14 days including the date of birth
• (If born outside of Japan) Within 3 months including the date of birth

• If the 14th day falls on the closing date of the ward office, the next opening date will be the last day of the notification period.
• If you are born abroad, you may lose your Japanese nationality if you submit your birth registration form within this period and you do not register your nationality.

In many cases, births in Japan can be obtained from medical institutions after birth. The right half of birth registration form is birth certificate (written by a doctor or midwife), so please fill in the left half of the birth registration form you received and submit it.

• If you need birth registration form paper other than the above cases, you can distribute it at the ward office Family Registry Division Family Registry Section.
• Example of description:Ministry of Justice website (outside site)Please take a look.

Proof of birth notification in the Maternal and Child Health Handbook.

In the following cases, you will be required to bring your Maternal and Child Health Handbook to the ward office in Hours at a later date.

• When notified at the reception desk at night or on holidays
• When Yokohama City submits a notification that is not permanent domicile at the time of opening on the second and fourth Saturday

If you are applying for a child's My Number Card, please submit a My Number Card Grant Application together with birth registration form.
Please confirm application method from application of my number card of one younger than one year.

Please report to one of the following ward offices (municipalities).

• Where I was born
• Address, applicant
• The child's domicile

From 8:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday
From 9:00 a.m. to noon on the 2nd and 4th Saturday
※Excludes public holidays and New Year holidays
About ward office window opening agency of the second, fourth Saturday

Outside reception hours at the Family Registry Division window, such as at night or on holidays

During this time, it will be accepted at night and on holidays, but it will be treated as custody because the contents cannot be confirmed on the spot. On the next opening day, family register officials will check the contents and if there are no defects, they will be accepted back to the date of acceptance, and the date of submission of birth registration form will be the “Notification Date” stated in family register.

The characters that can be used in the child's name are kanji for common use, kanji for personal names, katakana, and hiragana.
Please see the Ministry of Justice website (outside site) for kanji that can be used.

If your child is listed on resident certificate by birth registration form, my number will be assigned.
If you have not applied for a My Number Card together with birth registration form, you will receive a Personal Number Notification to Address in resident certificate in about three weeks.

In birth registration form, which requires inquiries to other municipalities or other institutions, if the contact information is closed and cannot be confirmed, it will be treated as custody.
The date of submission of the birth registration form will be the “Notification Date” stated in family register.