Official forms in Japanese

[Samurai_Jerk]

Doing my nenmatsu chosei paperwork reminded me of something that's driven me crazy since the first time I filled out official forms in Japan so many years ago. Why the fuck is the line for your address so Goddam small on so many official forms here?

[yanpa]

I think they're designed by people who live in houses and don't have to write apartment building names like "グランメゾンハイムステージ2ベルフレール下水ヶ丘 101号" .

[kurogane]

Microaggression. They know we can't write in 3 point font. In the old days I had to add a page to finish my address. A couple of times I just put the postal code and Kyoto, but they came back.

Are these at least electronic forms?

Anyways, yes, and sympathies.

[wagyl]

I can't answer why they haven't done a redesign by now, it is not as though the chome-banchi-edaban system in the cities is new, nor are ridiculous mansion names like レジデンス・スーパーカリフラジリスティックエクスピアリドーシャス anything new.

Out here in the country, my full address (excluding the postcode) is 8 characters and 3 digits. Plenty of room.

(Damn, I am getting constantly ninjaed by yanpa.)

[yanpa]

I can't answer why they haven't done a redesign by now, it is not as though the chome-banchi-edaban system in the cities is new, nor are ridiculous mansion names like レジデンス・スーパーカリフラジリスティックエクスピアリドーシャス anything new.

Out here in the country, my full address (excluding the postcode) is 8 characters and 3 digits. Plenty of room.

(Damn, I am getting constantly ninjaed by yanpa.)

It's suspicious that no-one has seen us in the same room at the same time...

[kurogane]

I can't answer why they haven't done a redesign by now, it is not as though the chome-banchi-edaban system in the cities is new, nor are ridiculous mansion names like レジデンス・スーパーカリフラジリスティックエクスピアリドーシャス anything new.

Because The Form is king. All and everything must acede to its needs. Besides, revising it would be terribly Mendo, and this would lead to cries of Taihen, and I think we both know where that leads. The museum I worked at finally digitised its various necessary forms in 2007.

At the end of it, The People are there to serve the needs of The State. It's not just a reptilian conspiracy theory, it's civil society ass end up. I think it was the anthropologist Robert Smith that made that comment about 30 years ago. A nice little book, actually.

LMGTFY............

http://books.google.co.jp/books/about/J ... edir_esc=y

[matsuki]

Microaggression. They know we can't write in 3 point font. In the old days I had to add a page to finish my address. A couple of times I just put the postal code and Kyoto, but they came back.

LOL, my name on my driver's license rolls onto the back.

Postal code...sheeeet, at least you put that much. I LOVE having to look that shit up from all the assholes here who refuse to write that on correspondence.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I don't even bother with my "mansion" name or 号室 anymore unless I'm forced. I just go with an extra dash followed by my room number. Which begs the question why am I ever forced to include them at all since they aren't necessary for finding me?

[wagyl]

In the vast majority of occasions the mansion name is not necessary, but there are some rare occasions where a number of buildings have the same edaban. In other cases I am aware of, a collection of houses all have the same edaban and the name of the recipient is necessary to deliver to them properly. Personally, otherwise, I'm all for reducing that unnecessary information.

[Samurai_Jerk]

In the vast majority of occasions the mansion name is not necessary, but there are some rare occasions where a number of buildings have the same edaban. In other cases I am aware of, a collection of houses all have the same edaban and the name of the recipient is necessary to deliver to them properly. Personally, otherwise, I'm all for reducing that unnecessary information.

Oh yeah, sometimes you get identical buildings with Ridiculously Long Mansion Name I and Ridiculously Long Mansion Name II side by side at the same address. My friend lives in a place like that and even with the building name delivery people make mistakes all the time. He has too after a few too many Jack & Cokes (not to mention rails of coke).

[matsuki]

II or annex....too lazy come up with another fucked, bullshit name?

Bukakkke Heights

[yanpa]

II or annex....too lazy come up with another fucked, bullshit name?

Bukakkke Heights

Isn't there one of those on the opposite side of the Smile Train line from the ice-skating rink?

[kurogane]

I know that place. It's just around the corner from 2 Ana Douji Pa-resu and Dekamaru Lezidensu Be-ru Byu where all the foreigners live.

[yanpa]

No you don't. It's just off the Condiments Trail Kaidou.

[wagyl]

No you don't. It's just off the Condiments Trail Kaidou.

I believe it is actually on the same side of the smile train tracks, other side of the rotary, and it is an ice ARENA, thank you very much.

Poor stalking, octopus!

(Dear victims, let me know if I have crossed any lines here, and I will edit)

[yanpa]

Yeah, OK, it's one of those chilly places where people go to beat each other to bloody pulps with hockey sticks. I'm working off the vague memory of photographs posted to the old FG which indicated a proximity to the tracks which would only be possible from the opposite side. My interpretation might be incorrect, admittedly.

(Dear victims, let me know if I have crossed any lines here, and I will edit)

Ditto.