On 21 October I added a papers calendar to Japan Life Hub. It only helped while the page was open: its reminders went into your phone's calendar, and your dates stayed in one browser. One member of retirejapan.com found out at a convenience-store printer that their My Number card had expired. No letter had warned them. "Was told that I had to pay 1000 yen for a new card," they wrote. Now the papers calendar can e-mail you.
Your household in one account
Sign in with a free AllKeep account, give the dates a name and save them. Add your spouse's and children's cards the same way, up to eight people. Tap a name to open their dates again.
The e-mail
It comes at 9:00 Japan time on the day a step opens, such as the renewal three months before your period of stay ends, and then 30, 7 and 1 days before the step's last day. Everything due that day for the whole family comes in one e-mail, in the language you used on the page. Each step has its dates, the office, what the step means, the sentence in Japanese to say at the counter, and a link back to that person's dates.
Immigration has its own mail service, but it only reminds you of the end of your period of stay, in Japanese and English. These e-mails also cover the My Number card, its certificate, the bank, a move and your passport.
What it keeps
Only the names you type and the dates. "Send me a sample now" shows you what will come. Every e-mail has a link that stops them, and it works without signing in.
