‘Koseki Information’ Category
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Can You Read a Drunk Chicken? Then You Are in Luck!
0June 30, 2011 by Valerie Elkins
Despite the obvious fact that Japanese writing or kana looks like the tracks of a drunken chicken – reading Japanese …
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Creating Records that are Disaster-Proof
2March 22, 2011 by Valerie Elkins
Japan has experienced disasters before. During WWII the 82 day Battle of Okinawa or tetsu no ami [rain of steel] …
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Why are there no Japanese records online?
6January 20, 2011 by Valerie Elkins
If you have searched for your ancestor from Japan on any online database (like Ancestry.com), you have already discovered that …
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