"Godzilla is a character that is the pride of Japan," said Shinjuku ward mayor Kenichi Yoshizumi

Last week, a 61-year-old resident of Japan finally became a citizen of his native country.

That citizen was Godzilla, and our faith in humanity has been restored.

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Though the decision was announced in April, the paperwork finalizing everything was completed only last week, proving that the one thing a giant atomic lizard can’t vanquish is bureaucracy.

“Godzilla is a character that is the pride of Japan,” Shinjuku ward mayor Kenichi Yoshizumi said at a special ceremony in April. His citizenship also came with a job offer: Godzilla will be the tourism ambassador for the Shinjuku ward, which he has destroyed in three of his films, according to the New York Post.

Godzilla was also honored with a giant version of his head, which is currently placed atop the offices of Toho, the Japanese film studio responsible for the original 1954 film. The studio has planned a reboot of its own, to be released in 2016, ahead of the American sequel to Gareth Edwards’ 2014 Godzilla, which is planned for 2018.

Hiroshi Ohnishi, chief executive of the Isetan-Mitsukoshi department store chain, in charge of the Shinjuku ward’s tourism promotion, continually referred to Godzilla with the formal, polite honorific “sama” after his name at the ceremony in April. It took a long time, but the King of Monsters is finally getting the respect he deserves.

Take a look at the big guy’s residency papers below – 5,000 copies have been printed and are being given out to fans on a first-come, first-served basis.

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The “Reason for special residency” afforded to him is “Promoting the entertainment of and watching over the Kabuki-cho neighborhood and drawing visitors from around the globe in the form of the Godzilla head built atop the Shinjuku Toho Building.”