At 01:17 PM 1/1/03, HKMiller wrote:
 >On Monday 30 December 2002 05:27 pm, Kyhdin@aol.com wrote:

 >> you, and I. . ." Sighing, he took out a small folder. "These are annulment
 >> of marriage papers.
 >
 >Technically, given a late night impromptu marriage ceremony, in Japan
 >they're not married until a marriage certificate is filed in a government
 >office (which wouldn't be open at the time of the ceremony).  So he
 >should be saying something like:  "Say yes, I tear this up; say no,
 >and we file them with the government together."

There was an article in the January 4 edition of "The Japan Times Online" 
about a drunken guard at the Itami Municipal Office put a not letting 
people in to submit their marriage certificates. This happened shortly 
after midnight on January 1.  According to the article, by law all 
procedures relating to marriage and household register applications must be 
carried out on a 24-hour basis, and so the city offices related to these 
things are also open 24 hours.  As I'm sure you know, people don't have to 
be married elsewhere and then come to the office to file their papers if 
they are in a hurry or otherwise don't want to because they can be married 
in these city offices too.

So, it's incorrect to say that the government office to file marriage 
certificates wouldn't be open at the time of the ceremony, because it would 
have been, by law.

Here's a reference to the newspaper article:
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20030104a3.htm



Jeanne Hedge
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