Comments by "Yo2" (@yo2trader539) on "British Man Born And Raised In Japan 🇯🇵🇬🇧" video.
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@somerandomchannel382 Japan exists for the sake of Japanese citizens. So if you're not a citizen, there will be natural limitations. If you're a Japanese citizen without proper Japanese education, there will be limitations within Japanese society as well.
And if you're a foreign national without any formal Japanese education, unless you have advanced professional or academic skills that Japan values and needs, there will be far less career opportunities. It will be near impossible to be a lawyer, doctor, public school teacher, or architect in Japan without having received formal education in Japanese.
The issue we have these days is that there are a number of children of foreign nationals who were born and raised in Japan, like the guy in this video. I recall seeing a girl in a documentary, who is half Nikkei-Brazilian and half-Indonesian and born & raised in Japan, and her childhood dream/goal was to become a police officer in Japan (like her grandfather in Brazil). But Japan doesn't allow foreign nationals to enter its Police Academy. Her dream would've been possible if her parents naturalized along with the kids. But they didn't or couldn't, and the girl doesn't want to give up her foreign passports. So she is still a foreign national with legal residency due to her Japanese ancestry. She now runs a school in Japan assisting foreign-children learning Japanese.
Conversely, there have been naturalized elected officials for decades. There is only one definition the Japanese government uses in determining who is Japanese or not, i.e. Japanese citizenship.
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He attended international school in Japan, and they mostly speak/teach American English. Since international schools were initially founded to educate children of expats, many of the teachers and students are US-educated. (British scholars and Japanese with degrees from Oxford and Cambridge often teach English Literature in Japanese universities and high-schools.)
International schools can be challenging for children of foreign-nationals growing up in Japan if they wish to stay in Japan as an adult. They're receiving a US-style education in Japan and many of them attend universities in English-speaking countries. Their education may be useful in their home countries, but not so much if you wish to pursue a professional career in Japan. If you cannot understand Japanese newspapers, you'll never be a lawyer, doctor, accountant, etc in Japan.
And without a formal education from a Japanese university, employment opportunities may be limited in Japan too. International students who graduated from Japanese universities, foreign students who studied Japanese in their home countries, or Japanese nationals who went through Japanese education and have studied abroad for university and grad school will almost always have more opportunity. This is because international schools were set up to educate children of expats who plan to return to their home countries after a few years. It was never their mission to educate their students so they can succeed and thrive in Japan.
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@julianneheindorf5757 There is no shame. If they wish to become a Japanese citizen, they can always naturalize. Foreign-nationals who were born, raised, and educated in Japan are given special advantages in the naturalization process.
And of all the different naturalization requirements, the bar is set the lowest for people with Special Permanent Residency. SPR is a hereditary legal residency, for people who migrated from Taiwan and the Korean peninsula, when they were legally "Japanese" citizens. Due to historic circumstances, they accidentally became "foreigners" after WWII. They only things that will prohibit naturalization is if they have criminal records, ties with foreign governments, etc.
In reality, people with Special Permanent Residency have all the necessary legal privileges they need to thrive in Japan. They are perfectly happy to keep their Taiwanese, South Korean, or North Korean nationality as well as identity while living in Japan as permanent residents. (This is in stark contrast to ROC citizens living in South Korea who were banned from owning property up to a few decades ago.)
The only obstacle for SPR holders is if they wish to work run for office or vote. There were people like ARAI Shokei who naturalized and joined the Ministry of Finance and later became a Member of Parliament. And there are also other naturalized citizens serving as politicians in Japan, who don't have a SPR background. I actually like our Jus Sanguinis citizenship rules, because it avoids creating accidental citizens who have no kinship or loyalty to Japan.
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@julianneheindorf5757 Permanent Residency is the same in Japan, it's generally 10 years of continued residence in Japan. Spouses of Japanese Citizens will receive preferential treatment but there will be conditions such as language fluency, income stability, years of marriage, etc.
As for Spousal Visa, there will be clear reason for a visa rejection. And there are many spouses of Japanese citizens who aren't permitted to live in Japan. Spousal visa can be rejected if he/she had things like: (1) previous visa violations, (2) unpaid tax & social security payment, (3) incorrect information in visa application, (4) dubious or suspicious marriage, (5) unstable income, (6) socially undesirable, or (7) potential threat to Japanese society.
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