eHow.com: deletes erroneous article on Japanese naturalization

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There is a lot of erroneous and false information on the internet, in English, about Japanese naturalization. So much of it is false that we actually have a section of this site dedicated to collecting false articles and pointing out their errors.

Sometimes, the webmasters of these sites, when doing SEO tuning, discover the articles on this site that point to and embarrass them by disclosing their site's lack of accuracy.

For example, a nice editor at justlanded.com, who was revising and revamping and modernizing the content at the site, reached out to us and let us know that they had seen our article and had rewritten it with the correct information. We replied and noted and thanked them for correcting and propagating the correct information.

eHow is another site that has done this. The old article has been deleted, and the old link has been reconfigured to now point to a generic article about Japanese immigration. They have, however, commissioned new article writers to write about Japanese naturalization, currently in the form of two articles:

  1. Japanese Citizenship Requirements
  2. How to Apply for Japanese Citizenship
Both of these articles, while lacking detail, are essentially accurate, and lack the hyperbole about it being next to impossible to naturalize, needing "Japanese blood", or needing to speak perfect Japanese.

As per our policy on the Misinfo Page, we will strike out the old article, remove the link to it, and point out and recommend they visit the new corrected posts and site.

Thanks, eHow!

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