citizenship

It turns out that the reason for the committee to explore dual citizenship is really about national pride.

A recent article in the Sankei Shimbun notes that a committee has been set up by the LDP to review the Nationality Act with a view to amend Article 11 that states dual citizenship is unlawful.

The impetus for the committee comes not from a sudden burst of altruism, but from the fact that Nobel Prize winner Yoichiro Namba has American citizenship. (And that is embarrassing for Japan or denies it greatness somehow?)