Strange guidance from the US embassy in Tokyo on affidavits of civil status

The US embassy in Tokyo has ceased notarizing affidavits of competency to marry that US citizens need (or maybe used to need) to marry in Japan. The embassy published an interesting and, to me, baffling note, which I learned of in a post by Levi Pells on LinkedIn, explaining its reasoning: Marriages fall within the Continue Reading Strange guidance from the US embassy in Tokyo on affidavits of…