Got my Zairyu card today but name order is wrong… What should I do?

Hey all, I'm ex Japanese citizen, born in Japan. I decided to get child of Japanese visa as I plan to move to Japan and got my Zairyu card today after arriving in Japan.

Unfortunately I didn't do my research and did not know that the zairyu card naming was the same as Japanese documents which is family name followed by given name. The immigration officer did ask me about it and I said it was "correct"… Which I now regret…

So now my Japanese name is flipped on my Zairyu card and makes no sense especially when I have a Japanese name. I read online that this does cause some headache in credit card applications and a few other things.

How do I fix this? The thing I don't get is that my passport has the right order and the visa that they pasted on my passport clearly states family name-first game order… I'm pretty sure I filled the forms correctly too.

Can I just go to a immigration branch and get this fixed? Any advice? I've not yet registered my address or anything at all. Just literally got my card today.

Edit: Adding this for future readers who run into the same issue as me.

I went to the Tokyo Immigration office, unfortunately they couldn't change my Zairyu card naming order because on my passport, it's in "GIVEN-FAMILY" format and there's only a 'name' field. I tried negotiating, in my native tongue ( Japanese ) to the immigration lady but got absolutely 0 luck persuading her :'(

The other shitty thing is that even if I did manage to persuade her, once my card expires and I have to renew it, I'll just run into this same shitty problem as long as my passport name is in "GIVEN-FAMILY" format…

So the only choice I have is to get a name change lawyer to help with the name changing process for my passport, change the passport, fly to Japan with both my old passport and new passport, explain why my Zairyu card name does not match my new passport to the entry immigration officer and start over the entire process.

Also what's funny is that since my name is Japanese, it's obvious that the ordering is wrong, while signing up for pension etc, I was told that it's wrong and to get it fixed. Like yeah no shit.

by Whole_Sea_9822

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