{"id":6709,"date":"2010-05-17T15:28:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T06:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6709"},"modified":"2010-05-17T15:28:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T06:28:02","slug":"moj-numbers-of-people-naturalizing-into-japan-1999-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6709","title":{"rendered":"MOJ: Numbers of people naturalizing into Japan 1999-2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0I usually like to start Mondays off with a bang, but since I had a long weekend down south, getting back late last night, and a morning this morning too beautiful to avoid cycling to work, let me open this week with a tired whimper. \u00a0Dovetailing with the article yesterday talking about Americans who give up their US citizenship, here are some statistics for people taking out Japanese citizenship.<\/p>\n

Source: \u00a0Ministry of Justice. \u00a0http:\/\/www.moj.go.jp\/MINJI\/toukei_t_minj03.html<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

These are all the numbers of people who applied between 1999 and 2008. \u00a0The numbers have been up and down like a sine curve, but about 15,000 per year (which will add up to quite a substantial number over time). \u00a0 Most of them are of Korean descent (probably Zainichi). \u00a0 The trend is for fewer Koreans, about the same Chinese, but a doubling in the “other countries” column (I am one of the 725 in 2000). \u00a0The numbers rejected are very small (about one or two percent), but as I argue in an old discussion on Mutantfrog (thanks to them for this link)<\/a>, this is unindicative of a lax system, since the entrance interviews weed out obviously most of the unsuitable candidates before they even apply. \u00a0More on my experience with Japanese naturalization more than a decade ago here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anyway, no booms here. \u00a0Yet. \u00a0Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dovetailing with the article yesterday talking about Americans who give up their US citizenship, here are some statistics for people taking out Japanese citizenship from the MOJ.<\/p>\n

These are all the numbers of people who applied between 1999 and 2008. The numbers have been up and down like a sine curve, but about 15,000 per year (which will add up to quite a substantial number over time). Most of them are of Korean descent (probably Zainichi). The trend is for fewer Koreans, about the same Chinese, but a doubling in the “other countries” column (I am one of the 725 in 2000). The numbers rejected are very small (about one or two percent), but as I argue in an old discussion on Mutantfrog (thanks to them for this link), this is unindicative of a lax system, since the entrance interviews weed out obviously most of the unsuitable candidates before they even apply. More on my experience with Japanese naturalization more than a decade ago here.<\/p>\n

Anyway, no booms here. Yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-assimilation","category-japanese-government","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709","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=6709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}