Newborn baby paperwork in Tokyo

09 May 2024 | #japan | #parenting

We recently had a baby in Tokyo, and in this post I’ll share our experience with the required paperwork (mostly in chronological order).

Our situation for reference:

• my wife is Japanese, thus our baby is also Japanese, so the baby doesn’t need residence card and visa
• we live in Tokyo, and some of these programs are provided by the Tokyo prefecture (but other prefecture might have similar programs)
• I work for a Japanese company as a fulltime employee (会社員), and they provides my health insurance

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Tech that helped us during the first months with a newborn baby

14 Mar 2024 | #tech | #parenting

I work in tech, and while I try to maintain a healthy work-life balance, I still use many gadgets, so I thought to share which tech solutions helped us during the first month with our newborn baby.

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Why I decided to speak my language, Hungarian to our kids and raise them multilingual

04 Jan 2024 | #parenting | #japan

We are expecting our first child very soon, so we have been thinking and discussing which language we want to speak to them. In this post I’ll go through some of the things we considered and how we arrived to a conclusion.

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