Thanks for letting me know! Too late to update the original, so here's the text again:
> [T]he koseki ... is an integral part of Japanese family law that doesn’t actually care about families beyond ensuring that the legally significant aspects of them are identifiable to the Rest of the World. Thus, a koseki extract today will show a marriage, but not whether the spouses are living together. The system also doesn’t care (i.e., show) if the registered father is not the biological father. It doesn’t care whom the kids live with after a divorce or if a divorced parent is paying maintenance or how often (or if) he sees his children.
That interested me as well. Is there another system to record biological ancestry (potentially important for medical reasons), child custody (and who decides which gets custody in case of a conflict), and child support?
I mean, taking normal prose and putting it in a pre tag is kind of a silly practice. I know we're hackers here and everything but that's actually not a great way to display anything but what it's intended for.
