LIVING IN JAPAN
Registration confirmation
(renewal) procedures
Example of a Resident Alien Card.
What are registration confirmation (renewal)
procedures?
(1) Alien registration expires on your fifth birthday after
registration.
The “renewal period” (jikai kakunin/kirikae shinsei kikan) is indicated
on the Certificate of Alien Registration (card).
Registration must be renewed within the stated renewal period at
one’s city, ward, town or village office.
Permanent Resident Permit and Special Permanent Resident Permit
holders must renew their registration every 7 years.
Those under 16 years of age are not required to renew their registration.
On becoming 16, registration must be renewed within 30 days from
the date of the applicant’s 16th birthday.
(2) Documents required for renewing registration:
Passport
photographs (4.5 cm X 3.5 cm)
Certificate of Alien Registration (card)
Note 1 For details, ask a person who understands Japanese to enquire
for you at your city, ward, town or village office.
Note 2 The information given is that confirmed as of July 2002.
Note that a new system or system revisions may have been introduced
after this date.
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This information
is from the CLAIR
website. The Council of Local Authorities for International
Relations (CLAIR) was established in July 1988 in response
to rising concerns about local level internationalization
in Japan.
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