Dual Citizenship Ken Shimada
First, please let me excuse my posting in English, as I am
in Hong Kong today, and I have no access to any PCs with
Japanese FEP.
Regarding Dual Citizenship, most of people opposing to dual
citizenship are arguing as below :
1) Overlapping government powers over one single person,
for example, compulsory military services.
2) One should not have the rights in plural countries.
It's true that dual citizenship holders have possibilities
that plural government powers conflict over them. And they
are benefitted from plural countries like working rights.
Those types of arguments are out of question because many of
countries have their treaty on dual citizenship like E.U
countries to avoid plural military services.
Regarding the rights in plural countries, this should not be
interrupted by anyone else, as we need to consider the
backgrounds like parental relations and etc.
For Canada/US/Australia, dual citizens are noted regarding
the possible conflicts between governments powers, military
services and etc.
I have my knowledge regarding Canadian government position
regarding dual citizenship, which include but not limited to :
1) To use only Canadian passport when he/she travels.
2) He/she needs to know that some countries like Poland,
Cuba, South Korea, North Korea recognize him/her only
as their citizen even if he/she had completed his/her
paper works to abondon their original citizenship.
The reasons are :
For example, North Korea, anyones who were born outside of
North Korea are solely North Korean citizen if they were born
under a Korean parent even if this parent is living in South
Korea as well as any other countries, per North Korean Civil
codes.
Thetefore, if a Canadian of Korean ancestry visits South
Korea and/or North Korea, they may impose a military service
duty.
As a conlusion, if a Canadian citizen is planning to visit
a particular country where military services are imposed on
any persons ethnically belonging to that country, do not go.
I know many examples of Korean-Americans/Korean-Canadians
in the age of military services visited South Korea for
touristic purpose to find that they were subject to the
military services, and have been taken to military camps
from the airport's immigration booth.
My argument is, Japanese government should not prohibit dual
citizenship.
Rather, Japanese government should make all dual citizens
concerned make their choice, to keep all of their citizenship
, or to keep only one whichever they like.
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香港の島田健さん（？）、英語の文章ありがとうございます。
新しい試みとして、英語・日本語のサイトでいいと思います。
２重国籍問題も私は同意見です。
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重国籍 どばしようこ
>現在の日本の国籍法は、二重国籍者はその判断能力が認められる
>成人になってから国籍選択をすべきである、となっていることに
>ついて、問題はないと考えます。
あの、なんかおかしくないですか？
「二重国籍」認可の希望は、それが現行の法律で許可されないとこ
ろに個人の問題が発生している、というところから始まっている、
と思っているのですが。
もちろん、安易に許可していいようなものでもないことは重々承知
ですが、現に、たとえば中身は日本人であり、同時に外国人でもあ
るような人間がこれからも増えるでしょうに、法的にはどちらかし
か選べない、という状況が出てくるのは問題なのではないかと思う
のですが。
二重国籍所持者だからといって「おまえは何者だ」と問うのがふつ
うというのも、根拠のない排他的発想に聞こえます。
わたし自身は、デンマークに住んでいて、デンマークの永住権を
所有していますが、日本国籍です。自治体選挙の選挙権はあっても
、EU関係・国会関係などの国民投票権はありません。
じゃあ、デンマーク国籍になれば？という簡単な問題でもないので
す。
だって、わたしは日本人なのですから、日本国籍を破棄するのは、
どうしても困るのです。