Document retrieval in Hokkaido
We obtain Japanese civil and corporate records for you, wherever you are. Available throughout Hokkaido without you leaving Sapporo or anywhere else in the prefecture.
Japanese civil records are held by the municipality where the family register is registered, not where you live, and many offices still accept only postal applications in Japanese with a domestic payment method. We apply on your behalf under a power of attorney, follow registers back through older handwritten entries when you need ancestry documents, and can send the original abroad by tracked courier together with the translation.
Japan's northern island, with a large agricultural and tourism workforce and growing numbers of Vietnamese, Indonesian and Filipino residents on specified skilled worker status.
We work with clients in Sapporo, Asahikawa, Hakodate, Obihiro, Kushiro and Tomakomai, and everywhere else in the prefecture.
- Prefecture
- Hokkaido, Hokkaido region — seat of government Sapporo
- Legal Affairs Bureau
- 札幌法務局
- Apostille counter
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo
- Collection
- Courier collection and return anywhere in the prefecture
- Quote
- Fixed price within one business day
Documents we handle
- Family register (koseki tohon, joseki, kaisei genkoseki)
- Certificate of residence (juminhyo) and its removal record
- Seal registration certificates
- Company registry extracts and closed registers
- Real estate registry records
- Certificates of tax payment
- Records held by schools and universities
Requirements differ by receiving authority and change over time. We confirm the current requirement with the destination authority before we start.
How document retrieval works from Hokkaido
Apostilles are issued only by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. For documents from Hokkaido we normally use the Tokyo (Kasumigaseki) counter, and postal applications are accepted from anywhere in Japan. Where a document has to be notarised first, the notary's signature is certified by 札幌法務局, the Legal Affairs Bureau with jurisdiction over Hokkaido.
You send scans for the quote, post or courier the originals if they are needed, and we return everything together once the last stamp is on the file.
Other services in Hokkaido
Document retrieval elsewhere
- Aomori
- Iwate
- Miyagi
- Akita
- Yamagata
- Fukushima
- Ibaraki
- Tochigi
- Gunma
- Saitama
- Chiba
- Tokyo
- Kanagawa
- Niigata
- Toyama
- Ishikawa
- Fukui
- Yamanashi
- Nagano
- Gifu
- Shizuoka
- Aichi
- Mie
- Shiga
- Kyoto
- Osaka
- Hyogo
- Nara
- Wakayama
- Tottori
- Shimane
- Okayama
- Hiroshima
- Yamaguchi
- Tokushima
- Kagawa
- Ehime
- Kochi
- Fukuoka
- Saga
- Nagasaki
- Kumamoto
- Oita
- Miyazaki
- Kagoshima
- Okinawa
Tell us what you need
Prices depend on the document, the language pair and how fast you need it, so we quote each job individually. Send us the details and we will come back with a fixed price and a delivery date.
- info@abc-offices.com
- Phone
- +1 315 820 1187