Japans household registration system and citizenship koseki identification and documentation routledge studies in the modern history of asia band 94 amazonde chapman david krogness karl jakob fremdsprachige bucher. Japans household registration system koseki seido is an extremely powerful state instrument and is socially entrenched with a long history of population governance social control and the maintenance of social order it provides identity whilst at the same time imposing identity upon everyone registered and in turn the state receives validity and legitimacy from the registration of its . Japans household registration system and citizenship koseki identification and documentation japans household registration system and citizenship koseki identification and documentation by david chapman and karl jakob krogness eds london routledge 2014 265 pp 14500 isbn 978 0 415 70544 8 emiko saito emiko saito search for other works by this author on oxford . Japans household registration system and citizenship koseki identification and documentation. Japans household registration system koseki seido is an extremely powerful state instrument and is socially entrenched with a long history of population governance social control and the maintenance of social orderit provides identity whilst at the same time imposing identity upon everyone registered and in turn the state receives validity and legitimacy from the registration of its