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Originally Posted by glowsilver
Just on a note of personal interest: I've heard there are forms for your parents to sign to state whether or not they had any more children, etc. Is that still the case and, if so, what happens if one or both parents is dead/missing?
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You hunt them down or you`re out of luck, from what I can gather.
I imagine that there may be some level of exception that can be made if you can prove they`re dead, but as Japan keeps very detailed records of people I think there is an expectation that you`ll be able to find someone in the same sort of way in other countries.
In my case, getting birth certificates from my siblings (with the mother clearly listed to match my own) and record of my mother`s tubal litigation was enough to show where my siblings on that side ended... But as I have no way to contact my father or the brother I know I have on that side - it means a trip to the US to hunt them down.