@VËIT{[C (guest)
Looks like you are good, in terms of documents that you need on your side. They may also ask you for documents on her side. Such as: income tax, residence tax, resident registration certificate (nouzei-shoumeisho, kazei-shoumeisho, and jumin-hyo), and letter of guarantee by a person living in Japan (this can be you wife).
If you have never applied and were granted a marriage visa before, you may also need: questionnaire form (which you must answer awkward and intrusive questions for the government on how you met), pictures showing both of you together (I think 2 are fine, but maybe 3), and possibly a document where a witness verifies that they know of you being together.
The main thing about the questionnaire is they are supposedly looking for if you met at a place that served alcohol, the marriage was arranged by a match making service, mail order bride service, or you met through a dating site. These are supposedly bad, and might result in the application being rejected. Where if you met at church, while walking down the street, at a park, or at work then that's supposedly acceptable.
As you are moving to Japan, so will unlikely have a job set up right away, they may also be looking to see if your wife has a job and makes at or over 40,000 dollars a year (around 34,000 euro or 4,400,000 yen). If not, they might give you trouble and check; if you have a degree, ask you to provide a bank statement, or want one of her family members with money to be the guarantor. This part is quite tricky, and there is no telling what they might do, ask for, or decide. The key point though is if your wife is not working or making over an acceptable amount, it can be better to have one of her family members with an acceptable income be the guarantor. If she makes higher than the threshold, then usually you will be fine.
Usually, they will only give out a 1 year visa at first, so they can check up on you later. When they do, it's to ask for her's and your's (especially if you are a foreign male) income and resident tax documents. So don't be surprised by this.
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