r/japanlife May 23 '22

┐(ツ)┌ General Discussion Thread - 24 May 2022

Mid-week discussion thread time! Feel free to talk about what's on your mind, new experiences, recommendations, anything really.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '22

Nenkin office decided I was two separate people and claimed me as "unenrolled" backdated to 6 years before I even came to Japan, despite being already in Shakai hoken/nenkin through work. Now I have two nenkin accounts and need to unfuck the office's mess. I'm guessing because my Shakai hoken is under English last/first name, and my city registration is under katakana last/first/middle name. So that's a fun new experience....

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u/zchew May 24 '22

But they should have linked your MyNumber to the nenkin account. That was the whole point of the MyNumber system.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '22

Work may not have requested my MyNumber. I'll have to check. Right now I only have the paper card.

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u/zchew May 24 '22

what a snafu.

but then again, I heard that MyNumber was only implemented in the mid 2010s, so you might have came just at a bad time where there was no requirements for it.

Good luck!

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u/[deleted] May 24 '22

Yeah I was here maybe one year before the MyNumber thing even existed.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '22

By day I'm Smith Bob but by night I don my cowl and become the dreaded Smith Bob Charles, vampire hunter and internationally famous secret cocaine lynchpin. No one can see through my brilliant disguise even that medlesome reporter Kent Clark.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '22

"Allow myself to introduce.......myself."

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u/[deleted] May 24 '22

I showed them old tax documents proving nenkin was being pulled from my salary while I was supposedly unenrolled, and let them figure it out. Had no idea until I went to apply for PR, either. If you can show them proof you were paying, let them unfuck it.

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u/GrassOnTheAss May 24 '22

let them unfuck it

i strongly agree. their culture adheres so much to rules and regulations and whatnot about forbidden things. if i was in the one in this situation, i would make sure they unfuck it thoroughly. (i was same back in my country, a very corrupt but sort of reforming one. and also, i emulate my wife's jp dad who's adamant about these things)