"I am an American male and have been married to a Japanese woman for about a year and a half," a reader writes. "One day, I came home from work and found that my wife had left a divorce decree on the kitchen table with a note. I was shocked!
"The first thing that came to mind was, 'How can she get a divorce without my signature?'
I checked with the city office and by law, they will accept a divorce paper as long as all the fields are filled out. There is no way for them to verify a foreigner's signature. I got a copy of the document and saw that my wife had written my name in Japanese characters and used my gift stamp with my name on as a stamp. This stamp is not registered.