Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "John Yamamoto-Wilson" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Gaijin twice removed Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 05:00:58 +0900 Lines: 36 Message-ID: <2liu42Fdft5lU1@uni-berlin.de> References: <73fde4f0.0407090554.8a47feb@posting.google.com> <94a6da7.0407120119.5cedb905@posting.google.com> <40F283CF.5090509@yahoo.com> <85241f49.0407122026.29bbbd76@posting.google.com> <96TIc.639$4L7.168@newssvr33.news.prodigy.com> Reply-To: "John Yamamoto-Wilson" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de JgwNskrvI0XrA5ACK3nDWAG7RdZbzuvxZnuUDdjT618zhSlaF4 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:15512 Musashi wrote: > Current Japanese law only recognizes dual-nationality status > up ton the age of 21. > At which time the person is suppose to make a choice. > Does anyone know when this law came into effect? > Is it possible that Fujimoris' Japanese nationality is being > recognized because he was registered when > that law did not exist? "[Fujimori's] parents registered him with Japanese consular authorities in Peru as an infant and he did not give it up under the 1985 citizenship law revision" (http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Alberto_Fujimori). "Until 1985, Japan ignored any other nationality that a Japanese citizen happened to be born with. Fujimori was a bi-national before the new law and wasn't required to officially choose the Japanese nationality and renounce his other one. Japan "assumes" that he, and all those who were bi/pluri-nationals before 85, did choose to be Japanese. It won't work for those who became bi/pluri nationals after 85." (http://www.crnjapan.com/japan_law/en/citizenship.html) In any case, my understanding is that Japanese law can only be applied within Japan. If a person with Japanese nationality acquires (or already has) a second or plural nationality, that nationality can perfectly well be recognised by another country, even if Japan doesn't recognise it. I seem to remember talking to a colleague at work a few years ago who had taken Japanese nationality, and was legally Japanese (and Japanese *only*) while inside Japan, but retained his (Irish?) passport and second nationality rights when he was outside Japan. -- John http://rarebooksinjapan.com