Document guide
Japão
● Detailed sheet- Documents covered
- Koseki tōhon (the complete family register), koseki shōhon (an individual extract), joseki (closed registers), juminhyō (residence certificate).
- Who may request
- People entered in the koseki, the spouse, direct ascendants and descendants. Third parties: only with a legitimate interest accepted by the city hall. A representative: with an ininjō (written power of attorney) and a copy of the grantor's ID.
- What to include
- The municipality's form, ID, kinship when not in the register, an ininjō for representatives.
- Channel
- The counter or post of the honseki's municipality (the family's registered domicile).
- Typical cost
- ¥450 (koseki tōhon) to ¥750 (joseki)
- Typical time
- Days to a few weeks
- Apostille (issuer)
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), free of charge.
- Official website
- www.japan.go.jp ↗
Notes
Postal orders require teigaku kogitte (a postal money order sold only at Japan's post offices) — the step that usually makes the order from abroad unfeasible without a local executor.
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Informative content about request procedures. We do not cover citizenship or visa eligibility. Rules and amounts may change; always confirm before acting.