Salt Bridge

証拠がなくとも日本人が「この子はオレの子だ」と言うだけで、その子が日本国籍になっちゃう法律案、ドイツでも散々悪用されたのに衆院通過したとは、、、ショック。

• 【国籍法改正案】 "抗議のファクスやメール、殺到" 多くの議員が法案の内容知らず、法務委は実質３時間で衆院通過…審議不十分の声
• 国籍法改正案審議入り　不正認知横行の懸念も　ドイツでは現実に悪用例あり [11/15]
• 国籍法改正案の超簡単なまとめ（チラシ）

Japan Citizenship Law for Mixed Race Children Nears Approval
By Toko Sekiguchi

Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Japan’s lower house approved an amendment to the country’s nationality law that may allow thousands of mixed-race children to become citizens.

The change, which the upper house must approve, applies only to out-of-wedlock children of Japanese fathers and non-Japanese mothers. Under the new law children will be able to claim citizenship for up to 20 years after they’re born; current legislation requires a Japanese father to acknowledge the child while it’s in the womb.

Lower House OKs revised Nationality Law
Kyodo News

In other countries in cases where paternity comes into question, DNA testing has become a routine method of confirmation.

At present, a child born outside of marriage can obtain Japanese nationality only if the Japanese father admits paternity when the child is still in the mother's womb, but not after the child is born.

The envisioned amendment would enable nationality to be given to any child born out of wedlock as long as Japanese paternity is recognized.