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I Became a Citizen of Japan

61 points luu 3 hours ago 12 comments

yipinwong 36 minutes ago | parent

why is this HN worthy or related?

ganelonhb 34 minutes ago | parent

I agree, it’s so off topic.

devin 29 minutes ago | parent

1. Nerds like Japan.

2. People with money like acquiring passports.

3. This community has above average representation of both.

romanhn 28 minutes ago | parent

I upvoted it because I found it interesting. That is all.

underdeserver 28 minutes ago | parent

The study of arcane procedures and immigration of all sorts comes up here very often.

neya 21 minutes ago | parent

It's not but to be fair HN is full of similar exaggerated instances "I migrated my backend to COBOL because it was faster" (it's really not btw)

pinkmuffinere 14 minutes ago | parent

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. [0]

This gratifies intellectual curiosity -- how does one become a citizen in one of the most isolationist countries? What is that like??? Read this to find out.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

gcanyon 12 minutes ago | parent

I knew Japan made it difficult. I clicked, I read the whole thing. Now I know Japan makes it (nearly) impossible.

I'm a typical HN reader (I think) and I found it interesting. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

contingencies 28 minutes ago | parent

Having learned too my own share of languages and conquered bureaucracy and process across them, the manner in which this guy writes comes across as vomit-inducingly glib.

sonar_un 11 minutes ago | parent

Stopped when he said he waited forever to get naturalized, skipping 6 years, and then saying he never got his permanent resident card, so he was just living off renewed visas, and they thought it was strange.

It is strange. A lot of the things he said he needed, would have been done in the permanent residence portion of his time in Japan. Just as it is in any country.

gcanyon 11 minutes ago | parent

> every address you've ever lived at, and the dates you lived there.

Well cross Japan off my list. I would not be able to produce that residence list under any circumstances.

NolF 1 minute ago | parent

Australia generally requires at least 10 years for some things.