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For those interested in foreigners obtaining Japanese citizenship, check out the story of Debito Arudou. It's a whole higher level of difficulty. At some point
by mmhsieh 6y ago
For those interested in foreigners obtaining Japanese citizenship, check out the story of Debito Arudou. It's a whole higher level of difficulty. At some point I think only around 16 naturalizations were happening per year, of a country of 100 million.
- SheinhardtWigCo 6y agoHere’s a link: http://www.debito.org/residentspage.html#naturalization http://www.debito.org/residentspage.html#naturalization
- aikinai 6y agoThere are over 10,000 naturalizations per year with a 99% approval rate. Your figure sounds like one of those weird Japanese legends. And I haven’t read Arudou’s naturalization story, but he’s well known for over-dramatizing everything and has an incredibly biased agenda so it’s probably best not to take anything he says too seriously.
- mmhsieh 6y agoI believe it was in one of Arudou's own writings that I read the 16 per year figure, circa 2000 or so.
- csa 6y agoDavid is a drama magnet. Take everything he says with a grain of salt.
- glandium 6y agoDebito Arudou's naturalization was more than 20 years ago. A more recent account: https://www.davidchart.com/2014/11/17/applying-to-naturalise/ https://www.davidchart.com/2014/11/17/applying-to-naturalise... https://www.davidchart.com/2014/12/05/first-naturalisation-interview/ https://www.davidchart.com/2014/12/05/first-naturalisation-i... https://www.davidchart.com/2014/12/24/certificate-of-citizenship/ https://www.davidchart.com/2014/12/24/certificate-of-citizen... https://www.davidchart.com/2015/02/25/second-naturalisation-interview/ https://www.davidchart.com/2015/02/25/second-naturalisation-... https://www.davidchart.com/2015/03/13/actually-formally-applying-to-naturalise/ https://www.davidchart.com/2015/03/13/actually-formally-appl... https://www.davidchart.com/2016/01/18/renouncing-uk-citizenship/ https://www.davidchart.com/2016/01/18/renouncing-uk-citizens... https://www.davidchart.com/2016/04/12/stateless/ https://www.davidchart.com/2016/04/12/stateless/ https://www.davidchart.com/2016/05/18/japanese/ https://www.davidchart.com/2016/05/18/japanese/
- laurieg 6y agoThis site is gives extremely detailed information on many aspects of naturalisation in Japan. https://www.turning-japanese.info/ https://www.turning-japanese.info/