"Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote in message
news:2ulqgeF291po5U59@uni-berlin.de...
> No, I lacked a 住民票. I did not live in Japan.

If you were a registered alien, your domicile was registered as being in
Japan -- hence you lived in Japan.

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Ryan Ginstrom
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