Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed2.dti.ad.jp!newsfeed1.dti.ad.jp!giga-nspixp2!nntp-gw2.ocn.ad.jp!nd-est01.ocn.ad.jp!cobalt01.janis.or.jp!not-for-mail From: "Ed" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Change to spouse visa Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 09:28:27 +0900 Organization: JANIS Net Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <4b02a340.0307260312.7ee31e6a@posting.google.com> <6afefaef.0307271637.64b77d88@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 172.21.26.81 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: cobalt01.janis.or.jp 1059356054 12164 172.21.26.81 (28 Jul 2003 01:34:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@cobalt01.janis.or.jp NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Jul 2003 01:34:14 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Forwarded: by - (DeleGate/5.9.3) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:3471 "Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson" wrote in message news:6afefaef.0307271637.64b77d88@posting.google.com... > "Ed" wrote in message news:... > > > > That is unless you count the time I had to go to the Tokyo immigration dept. > > and they asked me what my wife's birthday was (or was it our anniversary?) > > and I didn't know it, nor could I get ahold of my wife on the phone, so I > > had to take the train back home, ask my wife when her birthday is, then > > headed back the next day with the info. > > Perhaps this was a trick question - an oyaji test, if you remembered > the date it sounds just too much like you actually care about her... We have two official anniversary dates. The one where we actually got married which involved visits to the US embassy to get married and some non-descript office building where we registered the marriage in Japan so we could get a Japanese marriage certificate, and the other anniversary is when the ceremony was held. Between the two of them, birthdates of my children, how old they are, trying to remember what day of the week it is and my wife's birthday, I can't remember any of it.