The matters specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in Article 7, item (xiv) of the Act, concerning the certificate of residence of a foreign resident, are, in addition to what is provided for in Article 6-2, the following matters:

①A foreign resident, when seeking to have a commonly used name (meaning a designation other than the name that is found necessary to be entered in the certificate of residence for the official certification of residential relationships because of its being in common use in social life in Japan or for other reasons; the same applies hereinafter in this Article and paragraph (1) of the following Article) entered in the certificate of residence, must submit to the mayor of a municipality that keeps the basic resident register in which that person is recorded (hereinafter in this Article and that paragraph referred to as the "mayor of the municipality of domicile") a written application stating the designation for which entry as a commonly used name is sought and other matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and at the same time present materials sufficient to prove that it is necessary for that designation to be entered in the certificate of residence for the official certification of residential relationships.

②Where a written application under the preceding paragraph has been submitted and the mayor of the municipality of domicile finds it necessary, for the official certification of residential relationships, to enter the designation prescribed in that paragraph in the certificate of residence, the mayor must enter it as a commonly used name in the certificate of residence of the foreign resident concerned.

③In the cases listed in the following items, when the mayor of a municipality makes an entry in the certificate of residence of a foreign resident, the mayor must enter the commonly used name specified in the relevant item in the certificate of residence of that foreign resident.

④A foreign resident, when seeking deletion of the commonly used name of that foreign resident in the case where it is entered in the certificate of residence of that foreign resident, must submit a written application stating that deletion is sought and other matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to the mayor of the municipality of domicile. In this case, the mayor of the municipality of domicile must delete that commonly used name.

⑤Where the commonly used name of a foreign resident is entered in the certificate of residence of that foreign resident and it is no longer found necessary, for the official certification of residential relationships, to keep that commonly used name entered in the certificate of residence, the mayor of the municipality of domicile must delete that commonly used name and notify the foreign resident concerned of this. In this case, where the address and residence of the foreign resident who is to receive the notice are unclear, or where the mayor finds it difficult to give the notice for other reasons, the mayor may, in lieu of the notice, give public notice to that effect.

⑥The provisions of Article 27, paragraphs (2) and (3) of the Act apply mutatis mutandis to the applications under paragraph (1) and paragraph (4).