Talk:Foreign-born Japanese

message: I see some answers to my question on this talk page: the topic is confused. I was going to ask why Alberto Fujimori is cited here, and, more globally, why there is a section about "Japanese by birth" in an article dealing about naturalization. Apparently we haven't decided yet if the article should deal only about naturalization, or about both kind of "foreign-born Japanese" (naturalized Japanese & Japanese born abroad). I'm not sure the last topic is of encyclopedical interest, but in any cases, this article should be clarified. Lapaz 14:06, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Naturalization and "Japanese by birth": contradictory

message: Villepin was born in Morocco, but is not Moroccan.  He was born to French parents and has never held another citizenship than French.  Accordingly, I have edited the article, as referring to France as "his adopted country" is incorrest. 203.97.173.115 09:57, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Dominique de Villepin

message: A lot of countries have special citizenship laws regarding marriage, like not making people give up citizenship if they become Japanese due to marriage, or a member of another country due to marriage. Do they make people swear off nationailty in cases like that? Is it appropriate to link to an article about japanese marriage laws here? Tyciol (talk) 20:25, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Marrying?

message: I heard that a requirement to be aelgible to be a Naturalizied Foreign-brned Japanese, is that you must have a bachelor's degree as educational background or  years of work experience in a relevant field. Is that true? Is that an Absolute Nescental? Cuz I cant find anything to support the claim.--Akemi Loli Mokoto (talk) 14:00, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naturalization Myth? 

message: The Legal issues section contains a sentence which reads, "Many who were born and live in Japan permanently, particularly Korean and Chinese, tend to maintain their citizenship." This has been in the article for a long time (see  and earlier), but I don't see what it is trying to communicate. It appears to be speaking of persons who have naturalized as Japanese citizens. Since Japanese nationality law generally allows naturalization only of persons who are stateless or willing to renounce foreign citizenship (see Article 5, Section (5) here), these naturalized Japanese citizens will not have a foreign citizenship to maintain -- this sentence must be speaking of maintaining their naturalized Japanese citizenship. I don't see the point here.
The next sentence reads, "There has been a constant discussion among the government and lawmakers whether to expand their rights of permanent residence to include provisions such as the right to vote in elections, etc." Presumably, this sentence refers to the naturalized Japanese citizens referred to in the preceding sentence, but it seems to say that these naturalized Japanese citizens do not have the right to vote, etc. If this is so, it would be surprising to me and would deserve amplification here. 
Alternatively, perhaps these two sentences refer to foreigners living in Japan as  permanent residents without Japanese citizenship. The sentences make more sense to me with this presumption, but with this presumption I don't see their relevance in an article on the topic of Foreign-born Japanese (and see Demographics of Japan#Foreign residents).
I think that the paragraph containing these two sentences needs to be reworded but, since I'm not sure what those sentences are trying to say, I'm not able to attempt to reword it myself. I am mentioning it here in order to call this to the attention of regular editors of this article. 02:54, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huh?