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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 distinguis…

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 yourse…

And for those that prefer to watch a 10 minute video: https://youtu.be/PkO8lwHrLZE

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…

> 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 …

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…

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...…

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 …

Not just westerners; squat toilets, while in theory are good for the rectum, are not accessible to the disabled.