Compliance et Mortis

Filing one's SALN from abroad can be a bureaucratic conundrum wrapped in a Kafkaesque nightmare. Not to mention expensive. I can't blame the people of our consulate. They're just following a system and  have a lot on their plates. But man, it's as if the system is set up to prevent instead of encourage legal compliance. 

On the other hand, thanks to the debacle, I now have the ability to print pictures and documents from the net to pretty much any convenience store in Japan. So - an overall plus.