jus sanguinis or jus soli.

[guitarplayer7694]

Which one does Japan recognize? For those who don't know jus sanguinis is "right of blood" meaning if your parents are of this citizenship so are you. Jus soli is "right of soil" meaning you are born there so you are a citizen there.

[two_heads_talking]

I believe your question has been answered in another thread.. try the search and see what you find..

(edited because I simply can't spell today.)

[guitarplayer7694]

two_heads_talking wrote:
I believe your question has been answered in another thread.. try the search and see what you find..

(edited because I simply can't spell today.)

I tried and found nothing.

[Mike Cash]

Japan is jus sanguinis. And it wasn't all that long ago that Japanese citizenship could only be passed through a Japanese father.

[AJBryant]

They changed that?

About damned time.


Tony

[guitarplayer7694]

I kinda thought it would be jus sanguinis, seeing how the Japanese put a lot of importance on family.

[keatonatron]

There are many people of Korean descent who have lived and worked in Japan for 3 or 4 generations, and even though they only speak Japanese and hardly retain any of their Korean heritage, they are still officially foreigners -- they even have to register like the rest of us!

[Mike Cash]

guitarplayer7694 wrote:
I kinda thought it would be jus sanguinis, seeing how the Japanese put a lot of importance on family.

I believe that most of the world is jus sanguinis. Wikipedia tells us that very few nations take the jus soli approach.

[keatonatron]

Mike Cash wrote:
I believe that most of the world is jus sanguinis. Wikipedia tells us that [url]very few nations[/url] take the jus soli approach.

According to your link, wikipedia tells us nothing.

[coco]

keatonatron wrote:
There are many people of Korean descent who have lived and worked in Japan for 3 or 4 generations, and even though they only speak Japanese and hardly retain any of their Korean heritage, they are still officially foreigners -- they even have to register like the rest of us!

They are called 特別永住者 ( a special permanent resident, not only korean), and it is not the same as general foreign residents. Some of them have been getting tax exemptions, it depends on the discretion of each municipality. Of course they can become Japanese citizens (get Japanese nationality) if they want to do so, and some of them did so. It depends on their policies.

[Mike Cash]

keatonatron wrote:

Mike Cash wrote:
I believe that most of the world is jus sanguinis. Wikipedia tells us that [url]very few nations[/url] take the jus soli approach.

According to your link, wikipedia tells us nothing.

Fixed.