I do think we as foreign nationals should maybe force this issue a bit more. It makes no logical sense why my name can accepted in one place of a company, but not in another, and changed in another.Deep Blue wrote: ↑Sun Nov 12, 2023 2:05 am The Government really should mandate - either by law or by “guidance” from the MoF/MLHW/MoC that all banks, financial services, pensions, mobile phones providers are required to fully support all legal foreign names with no requirement to bastardize them into katakana.
Would remove so many hassles for providers and customers - how many millions of man hours a year are wasted on this sort of bullshit?
The whole IT system of japan needs overhauling but obviously that’ll never happen. But at the bare minimum we need to kick up a fuss about text box length, full width/half width character BS, and katakanaisation of names (that last one wouldn’t be as much of a problem if they’d allow us to have a katakanaised name on our zairyu card I guess).
It’s interesting to note that on Rakuten mobile’s website, it says if you contact them, you’ll be able to request a gender change on your account. But doesn’t mention anything about changing a name. So you can transition and change your gender ID on various services account but you probably can’t also change your name.
Such a strange system I really do wonder what is going through their heads when they make these rules/systems.
I’ll be calling up Rakuten Mobile now to attempt a name change (deletion on middle name).
