dence, and period of stay.

## (3) Notification under the Residential Basic Book Act

Foreign residents who change their address shall submit notifications on moving in/out in accordance with the Residential Basic Book Act, as is the case with Japanese nationals.

Although the provisions of the Immigration Control Act or the Special Act on Immigration Control stipulate that mid to long-term residents or special permanent residents should submit notifications of their place of residence to the Minister of Justice, they are considered to have done so if they submit a notification on moving in/out in accordance with the Residential Basic Book Act, with their residence card or special permanent resident certificate, to the head of their municipality.

## (4) Notice from the Minister of Justice

When a foreign resident submits a notification of a change of name, date of birth, gender, or nationality/region, to a regional immigration bureau, or obtains permission such as a change of the status of residence, and extension of period of stay, the description in his or her residential record needs to be modified according to the changes. Therefore, the Minister of Justice shall notify such changes to the municipality with jurisdiction over the foreign national, and the municipality shall modify the description in the residential record based on the notification. This process aims to ensure the accuracy of the residential records as well as alleviate the obligation of notification of the foreign residents.

(*1) “Persons who are to stay in Japan owing to birth” refers to a person with no Japanese nationality who was born in Japan and is able to reside in Japan pursuant to Article 22-2, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act.

$ ^{*2} $ “Persons who have renounced their Japanese nationality” refers to a person who has domestically renounced their Japanese nationality and is able to reside in Japan pursuant to Article 22-2, paragraph (1) of the Immigration Control Act.

## Section 2 ◆ Efforts to Secure the Accuracy of Information on Foreign Residents

## 1 Various Notifications

(1) Under the new residency management system, a mid to long-term resident shall notify the Minister of Justice of any change in his or her information on identification and place of residence recorded as matters necessary for residency management when he or she obtained permission such as landing permission within a prescribed period of time of the date of such change. (Refer to Part I, Chapter 2, Section 4, subsection 2 above.)

(2) A mid to long-term resident shall notify the Minister of Justice of any change in the organization to which he or she belongs within a prescribed period of time of the date of such change. (Refer to Part I, Chapter 2, Section 4, subsection 3 above.) The Minister of Justice also has the authority to receive information on a mid to long-term resident from the organization to which the foreign national belongs. Thus, the system enables the Minister of Justice to more accurately understand the state of residency of mid to long-term residents in Japan through the verification and analysis of the data received from both the mid to long-term residents and organizations to which they belong.

The above-mentioned “notifications on the organizations” from mid to long-term residents and “notifications from the organizations” shall be submitted by means of filing them at the regional immigration offices or sending them by post to the Residency Management Information Department of