havill

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by havill 4y ago
If Japan catches you, however, that's an automatic loss of Japanese citizenship. Japan has a specific law that says if you voluntarily acquire (or re-acquire; it doesn't distinguish) a foreign citizenship as an adult you immediate
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by havill 4y ago
The "Japanese language requirement" is technically part of requirement 4... the rational being that if you can't understand Japanese and you aren't wealthy enough to support yourself without working for the rest of your
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by havill 4y ago
And for those that prefer to watch a 10 minute video: https://youtu.be/PkO8lwHrLZE
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by havill 4y ago
You should watch this: https://youtu.be/PkO8lwHrLZE In particular, starting at 1m04s, the interviewer says "I hear it's hard to become Japanese". And the naturalized person answers, "the more and more I
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by havill 7y ago
> heredity and skin color most definitely has something to do with the japanese ethnicity. Only to racists. Just as being Jewish is an ethnicity (as well as a religion), you don't have to be white or have Jewish parents to be of Jew
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AR demos keep showing cool tech that just isn't practical(venturebeat.com)
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by havill 9y ago
Um, you all do realize that the guy who writes this blog is known within the English Japan crowd as a fabulist (a storyteller), right? The characters in this story are all figments of the blog author's imagination. You all have fallen
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by havill 10y ago
If I recall, isn't there a Google employee that sleeps in a 128ft² truck in the parking lot of the Google HQ campus? http://www.businessinsider.com/google-employee-lives-in-truc...
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by havill 11y ago
The interesting thing is that in Japan, for baseball, they forcibly separate the home fans and the visitor fans into separate areas. And the cheering is relegated so each side has the opportunity to cheer (while they politely stay quite whe
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by havill 11y ago
Not just westerners; squat toilets, while in theory are good for the rectum, are not accessible to the disabled.