This is also quite dependent on which part of Japan we're discussing. As an example, while my daughter's record of birth in Tokyo is a printout of a digital re

This is also quite dependent on which part of Japan we're discussing. As an example, while my daughter's record of birth in Tokyo is a printout of a digital record, my son's record of birth in Kyoto is hand-written, and other than the handwriting, looks identical to my wife's from the 1970s.