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Colin, yes that light is too weird. There's one ne...

2007-06-22T22:37:00.000+09:00

Colin, yes that light is too weird. There's one near my old house before I got married, everyone just ignored it and kept going. The arrows never seemed to move (i.e. all three stayed lit up, then faded out when the light was presumably really red.

Supposedly, citizenship is done through blood, not birth, so if two South Korean parents have a baby in Japan, the baby isn't Japanese, which is where a lot of that citizenship and stateless baby issue comes from.

Here's more info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_nationality_law

The only part I don't like is that you have to denounce your other citizenship. America finally recognized dual citizenship, it sucks to have the Japanese be sticklers in the mud now. Not like it means that much, it's not like I get to not pay taxes in one side of the Pacific or the other.

Peter, do you have any idea what that light means?...

2007-06-22T21:03:00.000+09:00

Peter, do you have any idea what that light means? If I saw that while driving I think I would cause an accident haha.

I will have to research on the citizenship questio...

2007-06-22T20:17:00.000+09:00

I will have to research on the citizenship question. My youngest sister was born on Okinawa in 1974 at the U.S. Army Hospital (now the U.S. Navy Hospital) at Camp Kuwae, and I've been given to understand that she's at least a dual Japanese/U.S. national because she was born on what is technically Japanese territory (though under U.S. military administration). Can anyone shed some light on this?

I mean, what is a driver supposed to do at that li...

2007-06-22T20:14:00.000+09:00

I mean, what is a driver supposed to do at that light??? You can't go forward, but you can go left, straight, or forward.