Becoming Japanese

Not necessarily part of a healthy diet in Japan I first started this website for two reasons: The first reason was that after I naturalized, I received a lot of the same questions over and over about acquiring Japanese nationality, especially from non-Japanese, both living in Japan and living abroad. Some questions were good. Others, not so good. Some from strangers, some from people I know. Rather than re-answer the same questions over and over from people that barely passed as acquaintances, I compiled a list of as many questions, along with answers , that I could think of and referred people to this site for longer answers. I also made a list of steps that a typical applicant has to take to try to demystify the process to those that wondered if the process was systematic or arbitrary. The second reason I made this site was because after I had gone through the process and talked and met others who had gone through the process, I was amazed at how much outright false info...