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getting an apartment and a job, education history, doctor's records
*facepalms* No way Sai could get an apartment on his own with no ID. *just got one of her own in September* Sai couldn't afford it either, not without help or some independent wealth. You have to pay far too much money upfront. I paid almost half a year's rent to move here!

Job - depends on the employer. Same reasons I mentioned before. ^_^

Education - Sai would have no use for it... until he was asked for it. Often, though, one can get by with a fake certificate. See how many politicians in the Western world have been exposed as fakes because they never attended Harvard or some other big name school, but had the certificates or just told everyone they did... (why are the only examples I can even _vaguely_ recall all American?)

Doctor's records - you make a new set of records when you go to a new place. As long as you have health insurance, no one asks questions. Even when you don't have health insurance, people will take you as long as you have cash. (Though of course, the flexibility, again, depends on the size of the institution... again, small places don't have the luxury of insisting on bureaucracy.) ETA: I can't remember if _everyone_ produces ID. If you go on private arrangement, however, anything is possible.

Edited 2008-10-28 07:34 (UTC)

Interesting. What if he and Hikaru got one together? Could they do it officially or would Hikaru have to take care of everything on his own? As in, Sai officially living there on paper, instead of just staying in Hikaru's apartment. Where I live, you generally have to change the contract when a second person moves in, although I guess it would be possible to keep it in only one person's name, if they don't mind taking all the responsibility for missing rent and possible damage.

I don't know about Japan, but here people would be suspicious of hiring someone with no educational background. Faking documents might work, as I doubt that most check them for authentity. If he were to become a pro go player, he likely wouldn't need even them.

Ah, I forgot about that. I guess they could claim that he had lived someplace else. I think that here they often like to request the files from the previous place of residence, although I don't know if that is always the case. I'm pretty sure they did that with my dentist's records at least.

Could they do it officially or would Hikaru have to take care of everything on his own?
When I shared an apartment with two people (one of who was also on the lease), they did ask for his ID. We had no choice but to put his name on the lease, by the way, because the rent was more than 50% of my monthly salary.

If Hikaru and Sai got one together, they would both be responsible for the rent. Therefore, the background checking would be just as strenuous. In Japan, a guarantor is required--if you have no guarantor, then a guarantor company _AND_ a person who can act as an emergency contact. I have no doubt there are ways around the guarantor bit, but the lack of ID would be seriously disturbing. It would rule out a LOT of places, unless Hikaru got his own place and let Sai stay there on the sly.

All that is just a long way of saying, "No." *sheepish*

Yes, people would be suspicious of hiring someone with no educational background, but fake documents are far too easy to make, and there are tons of little schools or unknown universities.

A pro go player actually _would_ need ID, by the way. All pros register with the Nihon Ki-in. (It looks exactly like it does in the anime/manga! ^_^ On the outside anyway. On the inside a lot has changed, and it is much more cramped.) Besides, pros get paid for events and engagements, and tournament awards. Those are taxable, and where there is tax there is paperwork.

I don't recall my old clinic requesting my medical files from the clinic before that. (*has been to two so far*). They didn't care where I'd been before, methinks.

Oh, I realize that a go player would need ID; I meant the education part. I don't think that it is a requirement for becoming a pro, except possibly some kind of record of having finished the compulsory education. Obviously they need a bank account, as was mentioned in some episode/chapter, and that comes with its own complications. You are a foreigner living in Japan, correct? Have you gotten a Japanese bank account? Was it difficult? I think that when a friend of mine lived abroad for a while she couldn't get an account because of some requirements; might have been because she was living there only temporarily. It wasn't in Japan, though.

Although Sai is clearly Japanese, so the foreigner aspect doesn't really come to play in his case. He might need to prove that he lives there permanently, though.

He might need to prove that he lives there permanently, though.
The problem isn't that. It's in ownership of the money. Without ID, anyone could walk into the bank and say, "I'm Fujiwara Sai, here's what I want you to do with my money." The bank takes ID before hand, and then every time you come, they ask you to produce ID.

There are other reasons that have to do with money-laundering prevention and compliance. Suffice to say, no ID, no bank account. (But that's a completely different issue from foreigners opening accounts. Yang Hai, for example, would have trouble. So would Touya Meijin in China, actually.)

I suspect compulsory education is all that is required, but you have me there. If you _really_ care, I'll try to decipher the Ki-in's webpage and see if they have something listed, but I'd rather not... ^_^;

I do have a Japanese bank account. In fact, I have two. I also have two credit cards from Japanese institutions, though admittedly I've been turned down from one more. After six months in the country it becomes much easier to get credit/bank accounts, but it's still not easy. I'm the only foreigner I know with credit cards, though I wonder if it's just because other people can't be bothered to apply for them. XD

No need just, just pondering. :)

That makes sense. As for the credit cards, I have this image that many smaller stores in Japan don't take credit card, is that true? If it is and people have to pay in cash for the everyday shopping, it would make sense that they don't see the point in getting one if they're not into online shopping. It might be that I'm wrong, though; it's difficult to tell fact from fiction when I haven't actually lived there myself. I'm so used to paying with a card that I usually don't even carry (much) cash nowadays, so I would certainly have problems in a case like that! Even some of the stands in the market place here take credit cards and they don't even sell anything expensive, but vegetables and such.

Yes, a lot of stores don't take cards, but I actually use credit cards a lot. Supermarkets, pharmacies, restaurants, karaoke, tons of places. I try to use cards when I can because I get points (and I don't have to go to the ATM as much).

Speaking of ATMs, I hate being charged to have access to my money! *groans* That's one thing Japan fails at doing. So many ATM fees.

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