{"id":5,"date":"2005-09-06T02:02:22","date_gmt":"2005-09-06T09:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdylorrin.net\/kdblog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2005-09-06T02:02:22","modified_gmt":"2005-09-06T09:02:22","slug":"alien-registration-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdylorrin.net\/kdblog\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"Alien Registration Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we picked up our Alien Registration Cards at the local Shinjuku-ku ward office where we live.  This may not seem like much, but in Japan in means a lot.  Primarily for us it means we can open bank accounts (joint accounts don&#8217;t seem to be possible) and we no longer have to carry our passports.  We did go to the post office today to open a bank account.  We got the form to open an account and will work on it later.  Yes, you can bank at the post offices here as a resident.<\/p>\n<p>We also found a couple of Japanese paste\/sauces that are vegan and tasty.  One is called &#8220;\u3086\u305a\u3053\u3057\u3087\u3046&#8211;yuzokoshyo&#8221; and is made from this citrus fruit called yuzo (\u67da\u5b50), hot peppers and salt.  The other is a miso dip called \u91d1\u66ab\u6642\u307f\u305d&#8211;\u304d\u3093\u3056\u3093\u3058\u307f\u305d&#8211;kinsanzo miso.  We only tasted them but they should go very well with vegetables and rice.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now. <\/p>\n<p>David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we picked up our Alien Registration Cards at the local Shinjuku-ku ward office where we live. This may not seem like much, but in Japan in means a lot. Primarily for us it means we can open bank accounts (joint accounts don&#8217;t seem to be possible) and we no longer have to carry our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdylorrin.net\/kdblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdylorrin.net\/kdblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdylorrin.net\/kdblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdylorrin.net\/kdblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdylorrin.net\/kdblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdylorrin.net\/kdblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdylorrin.net\/kdblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdylorrin.net\/kdblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdylorrin.net\/kdblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}