Falsehoods governments believe about ID documents: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/what-happens-to-people-who-cant-prove-who-they-are/2017/06/14/fc0aaca2-4215-11e7-adba-394ee67a7582_story.html?utm_term=.8e653e7c2e39 … include "everyone has one at all times" and "they always match".
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In contrast with some advocates I don't think these processes are malicious so much as middle class forgetting everyone isn't like them.
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My life gets thrown into (brief) chaos every time Japan decides to change the spelling of "McKenzie", which has happened three times.
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While I haven't been successful at convincing the government to not misspell my name I'm capable of understanding it and managing ID fanout.
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Japanese folks naturally don't understand that this could be a thing -- your official name is the one on your family register, "duh."
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"Americans don't have a family register." "Wait what." "I know." "Then you... can't complete this form?" "No, ministerial regulation 136."
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"What's that?" "It's the one that says, in the event a foreigner doing procedure, you write citizenship rather than location of register."
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"That doesn't even make sense." "I mean I agree with you but get out the book." *we get out the book* "Wow you, um, you're not wrong."
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I have a blue folder at home. It includes every non-redundant scrap of paper I've been issued by the government and lots of notes.
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From the stuff you describe, Japan seems a little to much in the Kafkaesque side, sometimes.
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I don't know if I'm making it explicit enough here: the Kafkaesque nature of Japanese institutions isn't _Japanese_ it is _institutions_.
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As I typed the previous comment, I was thinking about Brazilian bureaucracy and thinking, well, ain't just Japan.
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