Can I enter Japan to marry?

At the moment, am I able to enter Japan as a foreigner to marry my Japanese partner?

So you are not (yet) married according to any country�fs law, and thus you don�ft hold a �gspouse of Japanese national�h visa. Then as far as I know the answer is no. There is unfortunately no �gfiancé�h visa.

Unless you are from one of the few countries allowed to enter, no.
Getting married is not grounds for an exemption.
Also, check https://www.mofa.go.jp/ca/fna/page4e_001053.html

No job, not married, so no job/spouse visa options even if you were from the allowable countries.

So that would leave a tourist visa, which ain't being approved/given out to travelers.

So that would leave a tourist visa, which ain't being approved/given out to travelers.
There is a specific "tourist visa" called "designated activities" for a stay of 6-months.
What most people call a tourist visa, they actually mean the temporary visitor permit, and that allows a lot of different activities including sightseeing and business.

And they are allowing people ro enter Japan currently with said visa? Doubtful...

And they are allowing people ro enter Japan currently with said visa? Doubtful...
Yes they are. The official inbound tourism statistics make it clear that people are arriving on temporary visitor permits. It is easy to check those facts and not make up guesses or opinions.
Inbound arrivals include, for example, tourists from the USA. I had a specific reason to check the numbers this month and they are well laid out and accessible.

Okay. Thanks for the correction.

Can you provide a link is possible please.

Except if you are from one of only a handful few nations permitted to enter https://mail-order-bride.com/japanese-brides/how-to-know-if-a-japanese... Getting hitched isn't reason for an exclusion.

Exactly. And that won't change for the next years.

https://www.tourism.jp/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/JTM_inbound202103...
Useful spreadsheet showing inbound visitors by country and category. Last I checked included up to Jan 2021 for some values (preliminary).
Also https://www.tourism.jp/en/tourism-database/stats/inbound/ for high level view - useful for de-bunking the claim people avoid travelling to Japan in the middle of summer - July is the highest month for inbound tourists in a usual year.

Uhhhh, guys... Proxy marriage? OP; if your partner is in Japan she/he can file for a proxy marriage. All that's needed from your side are the necessary documents and a copy of your passport... You don't have to be in Japan at all to get married, only your spouse.

The way I did it (All steps abstracted away for everyone's eye's sake):

(Partner in Japan): Goes to city hall, gets the following documents:

- ������: The actual marriage document, you will need to place your signature on it and if you happen to choose YOUR friends/family as guarantors they should also sign it.
-- In my case I needed these for my government to:
-* Verify that my partner isn't married: �Ɛg�ؖ���
-* Verify that my partner was born in Japan (acts as birth certificate): �ːГ��{
-* Verify that my partners actually lives in Japan: �Z���[
- Copy of your Japanese partner's passport.

The above listed documents under -* will have to be sent to MOFA first to get your apostille. Once I received the documents WITH the apostille I sent them to a translator (which in my case was a legal translator which has been verified by our national court); this meant that I didn't also have to get the translation legalised.

Once I got the documents translated etc; I sent the documents to my local municipality (NOT IN JAPAN) and requested and received my "marriage eligibility certificate". Once I received this I got the "marriage eligibility certificate", a copy of my "birth certificate" and a copy of the "locals register" which proves that I live in this country apostilled and translated into Japanese. I sent these apostilled and translated documents WITH the signed ������ back to my spouse and Japan. She went to the city hall and got us married. The end.

Can I ask which country you were in when you got married?

I'm in a similar situation, wanting to get married to a Japanese national from the UK. All the official information says I would need to visit the British Embassy in Tokyo, but trying to find a way around this.

I'm from The Netherlands. Not sure if this clears things up for you, but there's a section on proxy-marriage in here; https://www.angloinfo.com/how-to/japan/family/marriage-partnerships/ma...

All your partner needs is your signature or ���q.

Ahh, so your partner is a Japanese national who lives in the UK? Or are you trying to marry a Japanese national who lives in Japan while you're in the UK?

So...your partner in japan got the documents and then sent them to you? Am I understanding this right?

@Noah

Apologies for the delayed response. That's correct depending on the documents you're referring to. Whichever document she needed from my side I sent to her through UPS and the same went for her; send documents back to me through UPS. So after everything was done and it was time to also register the marriage in my country she sent the new copy of her family register etc my side. It's just back and forth of documents.