・The essence of a family register is “proof that you are Japanese,” in other words, all people who have a family register are Japanese nationals, and if you turn it over, people without a family register are considered not Japanese (p20)
・Even if a foreigner and a Japanese person get married, a family register where the two people are listed as a “married couple” is not created, only a new family register is created for the Japanese spouse, so there may be no sense of accomplishment that they got married, but the legal fact that they married a foreigner is described in the Japanese family register (p23)
・Meiji Leap 4 (1871) 4/4 (1871), the first family register law was issued by the new government as Grand Council Decree No. 170, and the “Jinshin Family Register” was compiled from the following year based on this, and the purpose of this family register was to show that everyone would become an equal Japanese person in the family register by registering all statuses residing in Japan, that is, all statuses up to “peerage, warriors, priests, and civilians” in the family register (p29)
・The process in which Japan built the modern national anthem had contrasting characteristics with Europe and the United States, and as a symbol for building a nation state called “Japan,” contrary to France, which abolished the monarchy and built a nation state based on separation of government and religion, a story was created where all people were included as “subjects” under the prestige of the emperor (p31)
・Maintaining public order was also an important purpose in the family register system, and in the Nihonshoki there is a description of “making a family register, cutting off bandits and vagrancy” in 670, and making a family register also controls “outsiders” from society and collects them in an order determined by the nation (p35)
・The ancient public land civic system fell because the people became atoms and sought only private interests, and in order not to reproduce it in the Meiji nation, people were first set as members of the “house,” preventing each from flowing into individualism, and integrated into a nation as an extension of that house. Therefore, the Meiji government introduced the “head of the family” into the family register system, that is, the “head of household system” (p37)
・It is said that only people in the same family register are members of the “house,” and this is the cornerstone of the Meiji Civil Code, and why it is important that this house, that is, deciding whether to enter or not enter the family register is the authority of the “head of the family” (p41) The head of the household was entrusted with the role of controlling the family and instilling a sense of ethics and responsibility as a “proper citizen” (p46)
・The change of head of the family due to retirement brings about a reversal of the power relationship within the family, and since family obedience to the head of the household is taken for granted, the father who retired will now be under the supervision of the new head of the household (child) (p59)
・There are many male societies around the world, but there is no example in the world where a woman takes a son-in-law as a means of “inheriting a house” like in Japan. In Confucian societies such as China and Korea, there is a value for “surnames” representing lineage, so it is impossible to hand over the head of the family to a “different surname” called a son-in-law, that is, someone from another family (p62)
・The government allowed citizens in general to have surnames in 1870, which was a paving stone for the preparation of a nationally unified family register, but since citizens did not actively try to create surnames under the permit system, it became mandatory to use infants in 1875 (p66)
・The Jinbetsucho was aimed at the common people, and the samurai, who were in the ruling class, were managed by a register dedicated to samurai called the “Bunkancho,” and monks, nuns, and Shinto priests were also not subject to the Jinsekai. The personal classification reform was only for tenryō and feudal feudal domains (p85)
・Ryukyu had a dual control system with the “Shimazu family” behind the “Shimazu family” with the “Qing” as the face, and the reason this collapsed was because Europe and America advanced into East Asia in the 19th century, and England surrendered China by force in the Opium War (p109)
・The military conscription system was based on “all citizens” for boys aged 17 to 40, but heads of households, eldest sons, adopted children, and managers of the family business were exempt from military service (p118)
・The Meiji government decided to revise the family register system in Meiji 19, and the Meiji 19 family register that was born in this way had reforms leading to the modernization of the Family Register Law, and since exclusion books were created, it is possible to make a family tree until the Meiji period (p126)
・ The Personal Information Protection Law was enacted in 2003, and the Family Registry Law was revised in 2008/5. As a result, qualified persons were also required to describe the reason for the claim in detail, and restrictions on requests for issuance of family register copies, etc. were made stricter (p162)
