Lower house OKs bill to remove marriage requirement for nationality

[Bucky]

[Mulboyne]

[james]

wow, those screen captures are scary. soon the whole country will become infected with "teh chinese"!

Moreover, they believe the laws can be easily circumvented by any foreign woman with a child by another foreigner who can somehow get a Japanese national to say they fathered the child.

just my being naieve, but would there be no requirement for said japanese national to substantiate paternity?

[samuraiwig]

just my being naieve, but would there be no requirement for said japanese national to substantiate paternity?

I'm not sure about a requirement such as DNA testing, but I read last week that there would be a fine of JPY200,000 for any man caught falsely claiming parentage of a child. Doesn't seem like a very high fine compared to the possible gains for some people playing the system.

[Takechanpoo]

You gaijins are pleased with this?
If so, you should wholeheartedly thank Komei-tou a.k.a Souka-gakkai, which forcibly make this bill passed. They(Z-Korean) did it for themselves, not for YOU, though.

[amdg]

Why would we be happy with it?

Basically if foreigners are going to try to scam the system, they still have to find a Japanese person who is dishonest enough to lie for them (presumably in exchange for money). So the system will work well, as intended by law, unless Japanese people are dishonest.

[Mulboyne]

Yomiuri: Steps mulled for preventing false paternity

To prevent the fabrication of parental relations in Japanese citizenship applications for children born to foreign women, the Justice Ministry is to tighten up procedures for confirming the paternity of Japanese men involved in such cases, it was learned Tuesday. The ministry will revise its ordinances to make the verification procedures stricter and issue instructions about the procedural changes to its regional legal affairs bureau by the end of the year, officials said. The planned stiffening of the procedures comes in the wake of a revision to the Nationality Law that will be approved by the Diet during its current session. The law revision eases requirements for the acquisition of Japanese nationality by a child born to a foreign woman and a Japanese man by deleting a provision that makes acceptance of the nationality application conditional on the married status of the two. Instead, applications will become acceptable if the man admits paternity.

The government-proposed bill for revising the law passed the House of Representatives on Thursday and is likely to become law Friday with approval from the House of Councillors. The revision was deemed necessary following a ruling by the Supreme Court in June, in which the top court decided that a provision of the current Nationality Law making nationality acquisition contingent on a matrimonial relationship between the parents involved violates the Constitution, the ministry officials said. In the process of deliberating the revision in the lower house Judicial Affairs Committee, some members raised concerns that the revision could be abused as part of a fraudulent business by means of fabricating parental ties.

[Greji]

You gaijins are pleased with this?
If so, you should wholeheartedly thank Komei-tou a.k.a Souka-gakkai, which forcibly make this bill passed. They(Z-Korean) did it for themselves, not for YOU, though.

Wow, if because of these new changes, I become a citizen, does that automatically make me one of the sons of the Chrysanthemum brothers, so that you got to buy all my beer?