Scott Reynolds <scottreyn@gmail.com> wrote:
> mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> > Scott Reynolds <scottreyn@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:


> The only penalty I am aware of is "possible" revocation of one's 
> Japanese citizenship. The law is quite clear on this point: the Minister 
> of Justice *may* revoke your Japanese citizenship if you are an adult 
> (22 or older, actually) and have obtained or failed to relinquish 
> foreign citizenship. I have never heard of this actually happening, and 
> I don't know how the immigration people deal with obvious cases of 
> Japanese adults with dual citizenship (people at the window fumbling 
> around with multiple passports, for example). I assume the issue must 
> come up rather frequently, in our modern, international times.

One woman I know claims she carries both passports in the same pouch,
offering the proper one to the appropriate immigration official. They
politely ignore the offending one :-)

Mike