We did it! We made it official!! Yasu and I finally got our butts down to City Hall (and on my Birthday, too!) to seal the deal. It was really easy. Turns out I'd done a bunch of extra work back home in Toronto that I didn't need to. I wrote an affidavit stating I was legal and free to marry. Then I had it and a copy of my passport notarized by a lawyer. THEN I mailed that to the province of Ontario and in return received a certificate called a "Statement in Lieu of Non-Impediment to Marriage Abroad." Once I was here though, those weren't necessary. I actually had to go to the Canadian embassy in Osaka to fill out the exact same affidavit I had already made. They also supplied me with a Japanese translation of it which was the real golden ticket. It was stamped by the official person and it was then we could finally get things signed, sealed and delivered. We went to City Hall where we had a choice of a "regular" marriage certificate or "kawai...