...Linda White Abstract The koseki 戸籍 (family or household registry) has long served as a material representation of the conceptual structure of Japanese family relations. Membership in a family has been stipulated and proved through registration in a koseki document defined through a shared surname...

...Sungyun Lim Abstract This article examines false registration as a method of domestic adoption in South Korea. The article argues that the practice of falsely registering adoptees as natural births in the family registry emerged in response to the highly restrictive adoption laws in South Korea...

..., and forms of documentation (such as the Japanese family registry) produce particular forms of kinship that prioritize a child's possible future relationship with an absent parent, above and beyond the day-to-day relationships children might develop with alternative caregivers such as foster parents. Despite...

.... The distinction between the colonizers and the colo- nized was strictly maintained through the family-registry (kose&) system. Further, the discriminatory legal system in general ultimately ensured that the cultural assimilation of the colonized...

..., husbands, and sons with considerable privilege and authority. Thus it is not surprising that the household registration system has come under concerted attack from feminists and other family reformers, producing a much-altered form of registry across the region. There remains considerable variation...

... lack of citizenship in Korea, as her father has yet to register her birth in his family's registry. This renders Vy technically stateless. Vietnamese nationality policies define citizenship by bilateral jus sanguinis. In other words, a child with a parent who is a Vietnamese citizen is also...

... dormitory at the end of March 1996. No industrial accident had happened to her, nor any great change in her family except the death of her elderly grandmother on the Chinese New Year of 1996. She went home to her village in Hunan...

... in the articles by Goldfarb and White (this issue), the very form of the registry and the categories it requires foreclose recognition of diverse intimate familial relationships, creating hierarchies of social and legal exclusion based on bureaucratic (non)normativity. As a consequence, Taiwanese lesbian couples...

... Koreans identifiable was to prohibit transfer of the clan seat stated in the Korean koseki (family registry).16 This meant the permanent address of one’s paternal ancestry, indicated in the koseki, could not be altered or transferred, denying any...

...) . Boston : Arthur D. Little . ATSDR (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry) . 2017 . “ Camp Lejeune, North Carolina .” www.atsdr.cdc.gov/sites/lejeune/ ( accessed October 9, 2017 ). Axelson Olav Andersson Kjell Hogstedt Christer Holmberg Bo Gustavo Molina...

...- ownership, provides the fertile soil for a world to be made through the logics of ownership, alienability, and exchange (Bhandar 2018: 98 99). 10 On the relationship among the Meiji civil code, the land registration project, and the family registry system, see Okuyama 2006. The question of who...

...) that placed the eldest male person of the family in charge. When he passed away, the eldest male descen- dant took his place and held the rights of inheritance. Female members of the family could not inherit and, upon marriage, belonged to their husbands family registry. Under the authoritarian regime, only...

... for collateral. Short for sararı¯man kin’y, sara- kin originally referred to businesses that catered to salaried workers and their families and included companies such as Lake, Promise, ACOM, Takefuji, and Aiful — many of which now have ubiquitous brand...

... villagers? There could be a number of reasons for this paradox, but I am most interested in the practice and cultural logic of double-­identification. 1. Villagers’ Revival of the Long Pai Hui Fanzhuang is a village with thirteen hundred families...

... (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988), 3 – 34. 45. Hong Yanghŭi. “Singminji hojŏk chedo wa kajok chedo ŭi pyŏnyong” (“The Transforma- tion of the Household Registry System and Family Institution in the Colonial Period...

... or unknown to me); one full-­length performance of Elvis Phương’s hit song “Không! Tôi không còn yêu em nữa” (“No, I don’t love you anymore a three-­minute reading from the local registry of the recently deceased; a per- sonal request by a woman...

... the passing of the wiretapping law (1999), regarded as a security measure against violence by AUM-like sects, and the nationally accessible JUKI-NET, an online resident registry system launched in 2002. Alongside such state-motivated efforts to promote...

... was eleven, my family immigrated to America, and each summer of the last three years we returned to Taiwan. I would sometimes go to summer camp, which was mostly attended by other kids in the same circumstances as me, but we spent...

... Hansford (1899-1973), who initially also had no formal background in art history or academic sinology, having worked rather until his mid-thirties with the family firm of Wright and Hansford, China and Japan Merchants. He was a Universities...