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Also why is my kosei portion so small relative to my kokumin portion (the ratio between the total months', 182 vs 39, does not tally with the payments those months will provide me 432k vs 50k. When I paid those kosei amounts my payments alone (21k monthly) were more than a monthly kokumin amount wo...

Can someone clear this up for me: my son has dual British/ Japanese nationality. Before he turns 20 does he have to get the 国籍選択届, Kokuseki Sentaku Todoke and promise to endeavour to renounce British nationalty, or can he just carry on. What I mean to say is: does he have to do something proactive ...

These cases have nothing to do with Dual Citizens who are born with Dual or Multiple Nationalities. edit: removed confused reply. Yeah, I was trying to make a more general point about the interpretation of the law, by showing how the constitution itself has been interpreted surrounding nationality ...

1. Get issued a notification to choose 2. Choose Japanese 3. Endeavour forever 4 ...profit? I think that was TunaSki's point - there's noting that deprives you of Japanese nationality for failing to endeavour to give up the other nationality/ies. I guess they could argue that by failing to endeavou...

They would need to change the law. Because Article 16 paragraph 1 has no penalty written within it. And no where in the whole nationality act (including the the enforcement of regulations of the nationality act: https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/359M50000010039/) does it state that Japanese nationality ...

I can't bring myself to tackle the PDF I found this related one, which is cleaner and much more machine translatable. Not sure what the relation is 🤓☕️ https://www.courts.go.jp/app/files/hanrei_jp/619/092619_hanrei.pdf I think your pdf is all about people who triggered Article 11 but tried to fight...

For all we know, the MOJ wakes up tomorrow and decides to define what 努めなければならない is supposed to mean and close that loophole. They wouldn’t be able to just wake up and change it though. It would have to go through the correct channels to change legislation. Also if legalization on that terminology ...

For all we know, the MOJ wakes up tomorrow and decides to define what 努めなければならない is supposed to mean and close that loophole. They wouldn’t be able to just wake up and change it though. It would have to go through the correct channels to change legislation. Also if legalization on that terminology ...

I think we need to be careful with calling them "legitimate" dual nationals though. As we have covered here, technically you're not allowed to be dual national. It's only the vagueness of Article 16 that creates the legal grey zone for kids born with both nationalities. For all we know, t...

I was in the same situation back in 2002 as I lived in Romania, which was not in the EU, which was the requirement back then (it now is in the EU, and the UK is not, but that's a different story). In case 20 year old info is useful... At the time the "home" status was decided case by case...