Ernest Schaal wrote:

> The point I was making is that each country can determine who is a citizen
> and who is not, and if a person is not a citizen then that country can
> deport the non-citizen and/or refuse re-admittance of a non-citizen who
has
> left the country.
>
> If they wanted to, under international law, they could send her packing to
> Thailand. Under international law, they could send her packing even if she
> was born here, if she is not a citizen. Now, Japanese law could limit
their
> options.

We know they *can* send her packing, and they probably would have done if
the local community had not publicized the case. The question here is surely
not whether they *could* but whether they *should*.
Fortunately, it looks like sense will prevail in this particular case.

-- 
Dave Fossett
Saitama, Japan