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birth registration form
Last Updated January 25, 2024
- Person who can report, person who can do it
- notification period
- What you need
- Reception desk
- Remarks
- Precautions
- Related links
Person who can report, person who can do it
Father or mother
notification period
- Within 14 days including the date of birth
- (if you were born outside of Japan) within 3 months including the date of birth
Precautions
- If the 14th day falls on the closing date of the ward office, the next open day will be the last day of notification period.
- If you are born outside of Japan, you may lose your Japanese nationality if you submit your birth registration form within this period, and you may lose your Japanese nationality.
What you need
1.birth registration form
In many cases, births in Japan are given by 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.
Precautions
- Other than the above cases, birth registration form paper is distributed at the ward office Family Registry Division Family Registry Section.
- Examples of descriptionsMinistry of Justice website (outside site)Please take a look.
2.Maternal and Child Health Handbook
We perform birth report proof in mother and child health handbook.
Precautions
In the following cases, you will need to bring your Maternal and Child Health Handbook to the registered ward office in Hours at a later date.
- When notified at night/holiday reception counter
- When Yokohama City reports non-permanent domicile at the time of opening of the office on the 2nd and 4th Saturday
Reception desk
Please report to any of the following ward offices (municipalities).
- Where I was born
- Address in applicant
- The child's home address
Each ward office Family Registry Division
From Monday to Friday, 8:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
From 9:00 a.m. to noon on the 2nd and 4th Saturday
※Excludes public holidays and New Year's holidays
About ward office window opening agency of the second, the fourth Saturday
Each ward office night and holiday reception desk
Outside of reception hours at the Family Registry Division window
Precautions
During this time, applications will be accepted at night and on holidays, but since the contents cannot be confirmed on the spot, it will be treated as custody. On the next opening day, the staff in charge of family register checks the contents, and if there is no defect, it will be accepted as far back as the date of acceptance, and the date of submission of birth registration form will be the "Notification Date" stated in family register.
Remarks
Characters that can be used in the child's name
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 (external site) for kanji that can be used.
About my child's My Number
If your child is listed on resident certificate by birth registration form, you will receive a My Number. After that, a personal number notice will be sent to Address in resident certificate in about three weeks.
Precautions
In birth registration form, which requires inquiries to other municipalities or other organizations, and cannot be confirmed because the contact information is closed, it will be treated as custody.
We will make an inquiry again on the next opening day, and if confirmation is confirmed, the date of submission of birth registration form will be the "Notification Date" stated in family register.
Related links
For inquiries to this page
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