Becoming legally Japanese: Intro

How is this site organized?

We have:

resources (forms & documents, step by step instructions, translations, frequently asked questions & answers)
naturalized Japanese English language writers and contributors
a blog

The resources are listed across the top of the page on the tabs. You may notice that some of the tabs are incomplete or don't have links. That's were the writers and contributors come in. Every once in a while, a contribute will add a post about a certain resource or answer a certain question. This post will be placed on the blog in chronological order.

If you're just here to get reference information, you're probably better off looking at the tabs and selecting the links inside the pages, which will either take you to a web document or a web post that a contributor has written.

If you don't care about the reference materials, just read the blog. Note that the blog posts will not be in any order (ex. from the start to the finish of the naturalization process). Using the search gadget on the page may help you find a particular post.

Sometimes writers and contributors will write a post that is not part of the resources. It may be something personal about naturalizing, for example. Thus, the blog does have value outside of being an out-of-order set of resources.

If you have a question for all of the naturalized contributors, please send an email to <turning-japanese-info@googlegroups.com>. The membership of this group is limited to naturalized Japanese and those who are in the application process, those can read and write English as well as Japanese, and it is moderated.