Japanese Workbook Vol.22

About this book

YOUR JAPANESE WORKS IN DAILY LIFE. NOW MAKE IT WORK AT THE COUNTER WHERE LIFE ITSELF IS REGISTERED: 300 EXPRESSIONS FOR CITY HALL, PROCEDURES AND OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS, 12 OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS, 12 WRITING TASKS.

Finished Vol.1 through Vol.21? Your Japanese handles daily life, work, travel, health — and the formal day. But one register remains, the Japanese that decides whether your life in Japan actually runs: the moving-in notification due within fourteen days, the resident record a landlord or an employer asks for, the seal certificate, the insurance and pension papers, the deadline counted in days and the form that must be right before your number is called. Everyday conversation does not teach this Japanese, and getting it wrong costs a second trip — or a missed deadline. This is the volume that teaches the language the counter runs on — politely, precisely, and as municipalities and public offices actually announce it.

Inside: 300 practical expressions in 20 groups organised by scene — at the city hall counter, finding the right window and asking the way, moving notifications in, out and within the city, the resident register and its certificates, seal registration and seal certificates, the My Number card, national health insurance paperwork, pension paperwork, resident tax and tax certificates, the family register and life-event notifications, birth, children and school enrolment paperwork, driver's licences and vehicle paperwork, passport applications and travel documents, filling in forms correctly, deadlines, fees and paying at the counter, online procedures and electronic certificates, consultation windows and language support, certificates for work, housing and applications, lost cards, reissues and changes, and keeping documents safe and checking validity. Every expression comes with its reading, romaji, meaning, a short usage note — the window, what to bring, the deadline to watch, the words to confirm — three natural example sentences in Japanese and English, and a practice space for three sentences of your own: your move, your certificate, your question about a deadline.

Plus 12 graded writing tasks in three stages — short procedure notes (a written request at the counter, announcing a move, asking for a certificate by post, confirming a filing deadline), situation pieces (a reply about a missing document, booking a procedure appointment, notifying a change of address, a letter requesting a certificate), then full compositions (explaining moving procedures to your family, a written enquiry to the city office, looking back over a year of procedures, a guide letter for a friend newly arrived in Japan) — each with a model answer that really uses this volume's expressions, a self-check list and a full writing grid.

Plus 12 readings of real document genres — a guide to completing and submitting a moving-in notification, how to obtain a copy of your resident record, seal registration and the seal certificate, applying for and receiving a My Number card, the notification for joining national health insurance, pension notifications and procedures, tax payment slips and tax certificates, completing and submitting a marriage notification, the birth notification and procedures for a child, renewing a driver's licence and changing its address, the documents needed to apply for a passport, and the list of notifications needed when you move — each with a full translation, five key words and three questions.

All 300 expressions and all 12 readings are entirely new, with zero overlap against Vol.1–Vol.21 (checked programmatically against all 8,400 earlier headwords and 252 earlier reading titles, no exceptions; every Japanese field passed a character-set scan). The series now trains 4,200 words, 300 sentence patterns, 4,200 practical expressions and 264 readings.

Written, edited and published in Japan by a Japanese author. This book was made in Japan by Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC, with the care of a Japanese publisher who teaches procedures as they are actually announced.