Foreign-born Japanese

Infobox Ethnic group
group = Foreign-Born Japanese people 日本国籍取得者

population = About 130 million
regions = flag|Japanspaces|3127 million
tablehdr =
"Significant Nikkei populations in:"

region1 = flag|Brazil
pop1 = 1,400,000
ref1 = [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/latin/brazil/index.html]

region2 = flag|United States
pop2 = 1,200,000
ref2 = [http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/IPTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=01000US&-qr_name=ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201&-qr_name=ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201PR&-qr_name=ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201T&-qr_name=ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201TPR&-reg=ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201:041;ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201PR:041;ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201T:041;ACS_2005_EST_G00_S0201TPR:041&-ds_name=ACS_2005_EST_G00_&-_lang=en]

region3 = flag|Philippines
pop3 = 222,000
ref3 = [http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/breakingnews/view_article.php?article_id=122782]

region4 = flag|People's Republic of China|name=China (PRC)
pop4 = 99,000
ref4 = [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/china/index.html]

region5 = flag|Canada
pop5 = 85,000
ref5 = [http://www.najc.ca/thenandnow/today_census.php]

region6 = flag|Peru
pop6 = 81,000
ref6 = [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/latin/peru/index.html]

region7 = flag|United Kingdom
pop7 = 51,000
ref7 = [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/uk/index.html]

region8 = flag|Argentina
pop8 = 30,000
ref8 = [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/latin/argentine/index.html]

region9 = flag|Australia
pop9 = 27,000
ref9 = [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/australia/index.html]

region10 = flag|Singapore
pop10 = 23,000
ref10 = [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/singapore/index.html]

region11 = flag|Mexico
pop11 = 20,000
ref11 = [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/latin/mexico/index.html]

region12 = flag|Republic of China|name=Taiwan (ROC)
pop12 = 16,000
ref12 = [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/taiwan/index.html]

region13 = flag|South Korea
pop13 = 15,000
ref13 = [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/korea/index.html]

languages = Japanese· Ryukyuan· Ainu· Foreign Language

religions = Cultural Shinto and Buddhism

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Tnavbar|Japanese ethnicity|plain=1
A foreign-born Japanese (Japanese:日本国籍取得者, "nihon kokuseki shitokusha", literally "person who has acquired Japanese citizenship") are Japanese people of foreign descent or heritage, is a person who was originally born outside Japan and later acquired Japanese citizenship. This category encompasses persons of both Japanese and non-Japanese descent. The former subcategory is considered because of intricacies of national and international laws regarding the citizenship of newborn persons.

Legal issues

By Japanese laws, adult persons generally cannot hold both foreign citizenship and Japanese citizenship (dual nationality):
*those who have acquired dual nationality before age 20 must choose a single nationality before reaching age 22.
*those who have acquired dual nationality after age 20 must choose a single nationality in 2 years.

Many who naturalize as Japanese also adopt a Japanese name, although this is not required.

No law forbids a foreign-born Japanese to be elected as a member of Diet (as Marutei Tsurunen in fact became one). Theoretically, therefore, a foreign-born Japanese can become the Prime Minister of Japan. If this were to happen, it would repeat what happened in France in 2005, when Moroccan-born Dominique de Villepin, a member of the French National Assembly, was appointed Prime Minister. It would also repeat what has happened in Canada, the US and Israel many times since their respective foundings. Prominent politicians, born outside Canada, the US or Israel, but serving in a Canadian, American or Israeli legislature, have included former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir (born in what is now Ukraine), British-born former Canadian Prime Minister John Turner and Hungarian-born Tom Lantos, a former member of the US House of Representatives

Probably because of the difficulty of gaining citizenship and because of cultural difference, foreign-born Japanese people account for a very small percentage of the demography in Japan. Many who are born and live in Japan permanently, particularly Korean and Chinese, tend to maintain their citizenship. There has been a constant discussion among the government and lawmakers whether to give them some status similar to that of a permanent resident in the United States.

This contrasts with countries, such as most of those in Western Europe, Poland, Canada, the US, Australia, Israel and most Arab states, where people born natively are allowed to hold dual nationality, even if they are not automatically given the citizenship of their country of birth. In some cases, people born in those countries automatically acquire the citizenship of their country of birth.

Europeans in Japan, Japanese people of European heritage, European is fluent in Japanese.

European heritage

Japanese people of European descent.

Japanese by naturalization

* Akebono Taro (b. Chad Rowan), sumo wrestler
* Debito Arudou (b. David Aldwinckle), activist and author
* Bobby Ologun, TV talent
* Chen Kenmin, TV chef
* Sergio Ariel Escudero, soccer player
* Akira Fujimoto (b. Wiesław Romanowski), president of a Japanese software company
* Jinten Haku (b. Pak Inchon), baseball player
* Dido Havenaar, soccer player
* Koizumi Yakumo (b. Lafcadio Hearn), Meiji-era author
* Konishiki Yasokichi (b. Saleva'a Fuauli Atisano'e), sumo wrestler
* Chire Koyama (b. He Zhili), table tennis player
* Miura Anjin (b. William Adams), Edo-era mariner
* Hoshitango Imachi, sumo wrestler
* Ruy Ramos (b. Ruy Gonçalves Ramos Sobrinho), soccer player
* Rikidozan (b. Kim Sin-Nak), wrestler
* Wagner Lopes (b. Wagner Augusto Lopes), soccer player
* Ademir Santos, soccer player
* Alessandro Santos (b. Alessandro dos Santos), soccer player
* Marcos Sugiyama, volleyball player
* Erikson Noguchipinto, soccer player
* Mike Havenaar, soccer player
* Takamiyama Daigoro, (b. Jesse James Wailani Kuhaulua), sumo wrestler
* Marutei Tsurunen (b. Martti Turunen), politician
* Yusef Toruko (b. Omar Yusef), Pro-Wrestler
* Roy James (b. Abdulghani Safa) Tv Talent
* Osman Yusef, Tv. Talent
* Chris Bright, ice hockey player
* J. R. Sakuragi (b. Milton "J.R." Henderson), basketball player
* Kei'ichi Arumena a Mangaka and Web Developer and Cartoonist [http://kaijestudio.wetpaint.com/ |Creator of Kaijestudio]
* Benjamin Fulford, jounalist. Former Asian station chief of Forbes.

ee also

* Ethnic issues in Japan
* Dekasegi
* Citizenship
* Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Moroccan-born President of Algeria
* Rachida Dati, a French-born centre-right politician and a dual French-Moroccan national
* Pied-noir, a term used to describe the former European population of North Africa
* List of foreign-born French politicians
* List of foreign-born United States politicians
* Nationality law

Japanese born abroad

* Alberto Fujimori, former president of Peru
* Takeshi Kaneshiro, actor
* Hikaru Utada, singer
* Luiz Gushiken

* Children of the Japanese abducted to North Korea during the 1970-80's. Although the children had Korean names at birth, they were registered as Japanese and given Japanese names when they arrived in Japan along with their returning parents.

Footnotes