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...sharpest worry is that national homogeneity continues to be Japan's modern religion. There are no degrees of citizenship here: if you are not "a Japanese" your gaijin status is hammered home at every encounter with officialdom, every gape from rural school kids and every well-meant compliment on your chopstick skills. This is not an "Expat-as-Victim" article: I know that in the immigration authority's hierarchy of gaijinhood, Caucasians have a far easier time than, say, Filipino "Japayukis," Russian exotic dancers or South American laborers. My point is that foreignness is like a magical garment from...
...Japan withholds this consent like a zealot withholds an admission of doubt. At the political level there is no provision for dual nationality in adulthood, so on his or her twentieth birthday our child must go through the ritual of renouncing British citizenship in the eyes of Japanese law?while retaining both European Union and Japanese citizenship in the eyes of British law. On a civic level, even Hiroshima, my home for eight years and, according to its tourist literature "the international city of peace," denies Korean conscripts killed in the A-bomb blast a monument in Peace Memorial Park...
...public backbiting like this at every company. Then again, not every company has a legacy like HP's. Both Hewlett and Fiorina have staked their claim to what the founders dubbed "the HP way," a phrase that at first embodied the ideals of innovation and good corporate citizenship but has come to mean many things to many people over the past 60 years. Now two polar-opposite visions of the company's destiny--indeed, of how best to survive in today's rough-and-tumble tech economy--have taken shape. When the smoke clears, there will be only...
REVOKED. U.S. citizenship of JOHN DEMJANJUK, 81, retired autoworker long believed to be a former Nazi death-camp guard; for the second time in 21 years; in Cleveland, Ohio. His 1988 death sentence in Israel was eventually overturned, and he re-entered the U.S. in 1993. The evidence this time, said a federal judge, was "devastating...
...Thai government that their presence would be tolerated, provided they helped fight the Thai communist insurgents in the region. The fiercest battle began in 1970 and lasted five years. Almost 1,000 kmt soldiers perished before they finally routed the guerrillas. For their efforts, they were given Thai citizenship...