Subject: Re: another marriage question (koseki and jyuminhyou) From: John Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:54:39 +0900 Message-ID: References: <1i0g2ct.s3vo161ani16oN%al@privacy.ne.jp> <1i0lf7q.2dpz145qxn6cN%al@privacy.ne.jp> Lines: 24 NNTP-Posting-Host: YGTlfDH0w3wvxoovs6krzw.user.aioe.org Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!norn-news!CALA-MUZIK!news-out.superfeed.net!sp6iad.superfeed.net!news-in.nuthinbutnews.com!news.germany.com!aioe.org!not-for-mail Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070604 SeaMonkey/1.1.2 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:165757 Al wrote: > John wrote: >> This will be my 5th year in Japan. > > Perfect. Just right to apply for citizenship. Assuming you can use > Japanmese to a reasonable degree... I'm not that great at Japanese. Even though I can carry on a conversation, even after 4 years, I still sound like a little girl (or worse). Not sure whether that's reasonable or not. > >> I don't think I would ever give up my original citizenship. > > Which is? If it is Canadian or US, you won't have to give it up, > really... Maybe I spoke too soon. I'm not sure about the laws. Anyway, even though it may be convenient to have Japanese citizenship, I will not apply for it for a multitude of reasons. PR, on the other hand, seems more suitable for me for now. John