There 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

There 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.