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Hi Blog. In an important decision regarding how Japanese nationality is granted, the Tokyo District Court ruled constitutional on March 23, 2012, that if a person with Japanese blood is born overseas and has another nationality, and if the parents have not registered the child with Japanese authorities within three months of birth, Japanese nationality will be denied.<\/p>\n

This fruity ruling is in contrast to the Supreme Court’s June 2008 landmark ruling regarding Japanese-Filipina plaintiffs in a similar situation, where their Japanese nationality would be recognized despite similar bureaucratic registry snafus<\/a> (as in, Japanese paternity not being recognized within a certain time frame, and if the child was born out of wedlock). That ruling was justified in part by the judges candidly admitting that lack of Japanese nationality would mean clear and present discrimination in Japan towards these people. \u00a0(In a related note, the GOJ months later declared a “false paternity” panic, and declared countermeasures were necessary<\/a>; wheels turn slowly within the Japanese judiciary — perhaps this ruling is a countermeasure to keep the Half riffraff out.)<\/p>\n

The possibility of discrimination seemed to make no difference in this ruling, as paternity and wedlock don’t seem to be an issue. \u00a0Place of birth is, meaning this ruling erodes the primacy of Japan’s jus sanguinis<\/em> (citizenship by blood) conceits in favor somehow of jus soli<\/em> (citizenship by birthplace).<\/p>\n

Granted, Japanese judges are a fruity lot, and District Court rulings are often overturned for their fruitiness (see the McGowan Case, where an African-American plaintiff was refused entry to an eyeglass store by a manager who expressly disliked black people<\/a>, and the judge said it was unclear that refusal was due to him being black; and the Oita Zainichi Chinese Welfare Case, which tried to rule that foreigners were not eligible for social welfare, despite it being made legal by the Japanese Diet since 1981<\/a>! — see here also under item six<\/a>). Let’s hope there is an appeal and this gets taken before a less fruity court. Arudou Debito<\/p>\n

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Court rules nationality law on foreign country-born children legal<\/strong>
\n Asahi Shimbun March 25, 2012, courtesy of JK<\/strong>
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A Tokyo court ruled as constitutional March 23 a clause in the nationality law which stipulates that children of Japanese nationals born overseas who have acquired foreign nationality cannot get a Japanese passport unless their parents take steps to obtain nationality within three months of birth.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The district court was ruling in a lawsuit filed against the Japanese government by 27 Philippine nationals who were fathered by Japanese between 1986 and 2007.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

They were unable to gain Japanese nationality because their parents were unaware of the requirements in the nationality law.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The clause on stating intentions within three months of birth was added to Article 12 of the revised nationality law in 1985.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The decision was the first concerning the law’s clause, according to the Justice Ministry.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The plaintiffs argued that the stipulation was discriminatory because it amounted to reserving nationality based on birthplace, thereby going against the spirit of Article 14 of Japan’s Constitution, which guarantees equality for all.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the ruling, Presiding Judge Makoto Jozuka explained the legislative purpose of the clause was to prevent individuals from holding dual nationality without a legitimate reason to claim Japanese nationality.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

However, the court granted the request of one plaintiff on grounds that the individual had taken steps to acquire Japanese nationality.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the plaintiffs, Hiroko Ishiyama, 21, broke down in tears at a news conference after the ruling.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“My father is Japanese,” she said. “I have the right to become Japanese.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

She said her father did not know of the provision in the nationality law and missed the three-month deadline to file for Japanese nationality by one week.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Her younger sister has Japanese citizenship, as her parents filed the request within the prescribed period.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“I want to work and live in Japan,\u201d Ishiyama said. “If there is a chance to acquire Japanese nationality, even if it is 1 percent, I want to get it.”<\/em><\/strong>
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In an important decision regarding how Japanese nationality is granted, the Tokyo District Court ruled constitutional on March 23, 2012, that if a person with Japanese blood is born overseas and has another nationality, and if the parents have not registered the child with Japanese authorities within three months of birth, Japanese nationality will be denied.<\/p>\n

This fruity ruling is in contrast to the Supreme Court’s June 2008 landmark ruling regarding Japanese-Filipina plaintiffs in a similar situation, where their Japanese nationality would be recognized despite similar bureaucratic registry snafus (as in, Japanese paternity not being recognized within a certain time frame, and if the child was born out of wedlock). That ruling was justified in part by the judges candidly admitting that lack of Japanese nationality would mean clear and present discrimination in Japan towards these people. (In a related note, the GOJ months later declared a “false paternity” panic, and declared countermeasures were necessary; wheels turn slowly within the Japanese judiciary — perhaps this ruling is a countermeasure to keep the Half riffraff out.)<\/p>\n

The possibility of discrimination seemed to make no difference in this ruling, as paternity and wedlock don’t seem to be an issue. Place of birth is, meaning this ruling erodes the primacy of Japan’s jus sanguinis (citizenship by blood) conceits in favor somehow of jus soli (citizenship by birthplace).<\/p>\n

Granted, Japanese judges are a fruity lot, and District Court rulings are often overturned for their fruitiness (see the McGowan Case, where an African-American plaintiff was refused entry to an eyeglass store by a manager who expressly disliked black people, and the judge said it was unclear that refusal was due to him being black; and the Oita Zainichi Chinese Welfare Case, which tried to rule that foreigners were not eligible for social welfare, despite it being made legal by the Japanese Diet since 1981! — see here also under item six). Let’s hope there is an appeal and this gets taken before a less fruity court. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,34,5,37,26,4,15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-social-science","category-exclusionism","category-human-rights","category-injustice","category-ironies-hypocrisies","category-japanese-government","category-lawsuits","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}