I'll keep this as simple as I can while still giving plenty of detail. You'll probably be amazed at just how easy it is to follow. This is a ridiculously straightforward and effective way to handle this whole thing—pretty much unmatched in its simplicity.
・Ask the hospital where I was born. (Not everyone is born in a hospital, of course—there are all kinds of reasons and circumstances.)
・Ask my parents.
・Ask the rest of my immediate family.
・Ask my relatives.
・Ask the instructors from the various classes and lessons I took as a kid.
・Ask my kindergarten teachers.
・Ask my elementary school teachers.
I pulled out something I wrote myself from my elementary school graduation album:
"My dream is to do work that helps people in need."
Even now, it brings back memories of how innocent I was as a child.
・Ask my junior high school teachers. (I've deliberately avoided linking to it out of concern for the privacy and safety of the students.)
・Ask my high school teachers.
・Ask my university professors
I majored in American Culture Studies.
I originally wanted to write my senior thesis (which had to be in English) about Walt Disney, but I gave up.
About a month before the deadline, I switched to analyzing Robert Frost's poetry and managed to graduate just fine.
・Ask people from my previous jobs (ideally, as many as possible).
・Look over the certifications I've earned and the ones I'm pursuing.
・Check my recent calendar and schedule.
・Look into the social issues I'm passionate about.
・Watch my videos.
・Check the places I go regularly.
・Read my reading notes.
・Read my essays.
・Check my medaka (killifish) breeding journal.
・Look through my collection of Ibaraki Prefecture-related links.
・Look through my IT and tech-related link collection.
・Look through my picture book-related link collection.
・Look through my outdoor activities link collection.
・Check out my old original creative works.
・Look through my other activity links.
・Check the links related to "Government PR Online." That should give you a rough idea of my current interests and how deeply (or shallowly) I understand them.
・Browse the general "things I'm interested in" link collection.
・Take a look at my word definitions.
・Ask my current clients (though that's probably not realistic).
・Search through various web hosting providers to see if I've ever had an account, and what my usage looked like.
My first website was probably on GeoCities—something like Bookend-Ohgai as the address, I think?
・Ask my neighbors.
・Look into the places I've lived before.
・Contact various real estate agencies.
・Contact different home builders.
・Look into credit card and electronic payment records (transaction history, etc.).
・Check contracts with landline and mobile phone providers.
・Review email history. (But keep in mind that Japanese law protects the secrecy of communications and personal information—disclosing that kind of thing without permission is illegal.)
・Examine other forms of communication where possible (including non-verbal cues like body language).
・Ask old friends, acquaintances, and anyone who might have been a "boyfriend." (From my side, though, those relationships ended badly for everyone involved, and I have zero interest in reconnecting. Honestly, I've realized that deep down, I probably wasn't fond of them from the very start...)
・Ask staff at city hall.
・Ask staff at the prefectural office.
・Ask staff at the National Diet building.
・Ask the secretaries of politicians I've written to in the past.
・Ask around anywhere in the world for the most recent sightings of me.
・Try to seriously and calmly estimate the total time and money my parents invested in raising me and spending time with their kids. (Of course, I know this is basically impossible for anyone outside my immediate family—and even they probably couldn't get an exact figure—without access to private financial details.)
・With all that in mind, think seriously with me about whether someone like me—who's pretty much at the low end when it comes to energy and stamina—could ever replicate that level of investment on my own, survive pregnancy and childbirth in my condition, or raise kids without a high risk of things going wrong... and whether any children left behind would end up suffering the most.
・Read my notes on the challenges of running a website.
・If, after all this, it's still not enough, then I guess we'll have to bring in the professionals—like the police or lawyers (in whatever capacity that ends up meaning).
・To be completely blunt (and this is a bit much even for me): anyone who feels the need to investigate me this thoroughly is probably, at that point, either the person I care about most... or the absolute worst kind of person in my life.
・If the point I'm making here doesn't land, then our relationship is probably "that kind."
・And for those who either get it perfectly or not at all—you might occasionally get some weird mail or unexpected visits from me or my crew (think Straw Hat Pirates vibe). Take that warning seriously.