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NATIONALITY

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller speaks while U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick listen during an event at the White House in Washington on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 8, 2026
Trump¡¯s new attack on birthright citizenship faces uphill legal battle
The Republican ?president has for years threatened to tighten birthright citizenship as part of his restrictive immigration agenda.
U.S. President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders on Thursday aimed at denying citizenship to certain people born in the U.S., his second attempt to curb birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court knocked down an earlier directive.
WORLD
Aug 7, 2026
Trump signs orders to limit U.S. birthright citizenship, despite Supreme Court ruling
Limiting birthright citizenship has been one of the top priorities in the Republican president¡¯s crackdown on immigration.
New Americans stand for the national anthem at a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services naturalization ceremony at the New York Public Library in Manhattan in July 2018.?
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 23, 2026
The U.S. ¡®assimilate or go home¡¯ crowd could use a history lesson
Recent immigrants also match or outperform earlier generations in noneconomic integration metrics.
Transcarpathia is a western Ukrainian region and one of the country's most ethnically diverse areas, populated by groups including Hutsuls, seen here in Yasynya, as well as Hungarians, Romanians, Slovaks and Ukrainians.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 11, 2026
Language, power and the price of entry
The same logic that protects Hungarians in Ukraine leaves Russian in the cold. Language policy, it turns out, has a foreign policy.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi delivers a policy speech before the country's parliament in Tokyo in February. The Japanese leader recently argued that requiring candidates to disclose prior citizenship would violate equality before the law.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 8, 2026
In trust¡¯s name, disclose candidates¡¯ prior citizenship
The issue is whether voters have the right to know the backgrounds of the people seeking to govern them. In any healthy democracy, the answer is yes.
Protesters gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Wednesday. The court heard a landmark case testing whether U.S. President Donald Trump can limit birthright citizenship, the long-held principle that nearly all children born in the United States are automatically citizens.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 2, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court justices skeptical of Trump order to restrict birthright citizenship
The Supreme Court proceedings come after a lower court found that Trump¡¯s order restricting birthright citizenship violated language in the U.S. Constitution¡¯s 14th Amendment.
Norman Wong, the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark, poses for a portrait in front of a mural of his late ancestor in San Francisco on March 25.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 30, 2026
In U.S. Supreme Court fight over birthright citizenship, a great-grandson hears echoes of 1898
San Francisco area resident Norman Wong, 76, worries that the principle granting citizenship by birth on U.S. soil enshrined by his ancestor¡¯s case may be in peril.
Justice Minister Hiroshi Hiraguchi speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 27, 2026
Japan to tighten requirements for naturalization starting April 1
The criteria for foreign nationals seeking citizenship will be brought to the level required for permanent residency.
A window overlooks Shinjuku¡¯s skyscrapers, at a high-rise building in Tokyo, Japan, in 2016.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 4, 2026
Government panel on foreign buyers of land to submit proposal this summer
The panel convened as the government aims to submit a bill to tighten restrictions on land purchases by foreign nationals in the current parliamentary session.
Sanseito, a party led by Sohei Kamiya (second from right), opposes the long-term settlement of foreign nationals but supports the use of short-term foreign labor.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Feb 5, 2026
Conservative parties push for capping of foreign resident population
The Japan Innovation Party, Sanseito and the Conservative Party of Japan are taking a hard-line stance while other parties are proposing alternative measures.
The government is asking municipalities to check the nationalities of residents of public housing to address challenges such as etiquette awareness and disaster response.
JAPAN
Jan 23, 2026
Japan begins survey over nationality of public housing residents
Identifying the dominant nationalities of foreign residents will help officials address challenges such as etiquette awareness and disaster response, ministry officials said.
British anti-immigration activist Tommy Robinson arrives at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London on Oct. 13, where he was on trial charged with an offense under the Terrorism Act. The court later found him not guilty.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 19, 2026
So what does it mean to be properly English?
There¡¯s nothing wrong in anybody taking pride in being English, of course, but as Orwell said, there¡¯s something very un-English in shouting about it.
Undated photos of migrant workers and their families at the Canada Museum in Mio, Wakayama Prefecture
JAPAN
Jan 4, 2026
Tracing the family tree: Roots tourism gains traction in Japan
More and more overseas residents of Japanese descent are hoping to learn more about their family history, heritage and traditions.
Construction in Tokyo¡¯s Chiyoda Ward in August
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Dec 29, 2025
Japan should regulate land use rather than real estate purchases by foreign nationals, expert says
An expert on a panel set up by the Cabinet believes the government is better off regulating how land is used rather than who is allowed to own it.
According to the Justice Ministry, 12,248 people applied for naturalization in 2024, with 8,863 approved.
JAPAN
Dec 22, 2025
Japan eyes stricter residency requirement for naturalization
By extending the necessary period of residency to at least 10 years, Japan would bring the nationality requirement into line with that for obtaining permanent residency.
Applicants for U.S. citizenship await the start of a naturalization ceremony in Washington in September 2019.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 18, 2025
Trump administration aims to strip more foreign-born Americans of citizenship
New guidance from the administration is seeking 100-200 denaturalization cases per month in the 2026 fiscal year.
Justice Minister Hiroshi Hiraguchi speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Nov. 28.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 16, 2025
Japan aims to require nationality declaration to register property from fiscal 2026
While nationality information will be available in public registry, it will stored in the government¡¯s real estate system for interagency sharing.
The government is looking to include nationality in a planned property registration database amid concerns that condominium purchases by foreign citizens have driven up prices.
JAPAN
Dec 3, 2025
Japan to require nationality in property registrations
Currently, buyers are not required to report their nationality when registering properties, such as condominiums.
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2025
Descendants in Philippines denied Japanese citizenship
Family courts ruled that the four were not recognized by their Japanese fathers, and therefore rejected their claims.
Jon Heese (second left) takes part in a 2024 New Year's nihonshu barrel opening ceremony.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 17, 2025
Why I chose Japanese citizenship over permanent residency
It may be adequate for some residents¡¯ purposes, but when the chips are down, many will be shocked at just how few protections it offers.
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Severe tropical storm Chan-hom makes landfall near Tokyo
Severe Tropical Storm Chan-hom made landfall around Ibaraki Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Tuesday night.
What Â鶹´«Ã½ language rules for permanent residency should look like
Potential health care workers hoping to find work in Japan take Japanese language instruction in Jakarta. Not all applicants for permanent residency should be expected to reach this level of proficiency.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.
Â鶹´«Ã½ brewers experiment with a secret ingredient: music
At Smoke Craft, a craft beer brewery in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, music isn't just a background to the brewing process ¡ª it's an ingredient.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
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