
A man in his 30s has been found to have been wrongly registered as a woman by the municipal government of Izumo, Shimane Prefecture. The error on the family registration was found Thursday when a municipal government employee was processing a marriage registration request from the man submitted the day before. The city government said it believed it mistakenly registered the man as his parents' eldest daughter at the time of his birth. The Izumo government has to wait until the request to correct the man's registration is approved by the central government. Because the man is registered as a woman, his request to register his marriage has been temporarily suspended.