Christopher Asahara | クリス朝原

“If for some reason you have to choose, which nationality would it be?”

もし選択しなければならないとしたら、国籍はどちらにしますか。

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Profile:

Father	Japanese
Mother	Chile
Age	40
Born in	Japan
Lived in	Japan - USA - Chile
Speaks Japanese	⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫
Reading and Writing	⚫⚫⚫⚫⚪
Speaks	English - Japanese - Spanish

プロファイル：

父	日本人
母	チリ人
年齢	40歳
出生地	日本
今まで住んだ国	日本｜アメリカ｜チリ
日本語会話のレベル	⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫
日本語読み書きのレベル	⚫⚫⚫⚫⚪
話せる言語	英語｜日本語｜スペイン語

7 comments

Bobby D says:
November 9, 2017 at 20:11
We need to be world citizens instead of having nationalities in a perfect world. A lot of the world’s problems are because of this, the divide then conquer way of thinking that the global elite use to divide peoples. Of course the aforementioned is idealism, it’ll never happen…
If I had to choose I’d probably go w/ US simply because I can still live in Japan with a Child of a Japanese National visa and eventually get permanent residence status (eijuken) in Japan which is probably what I will do in the future.
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Karen Abe says:
November 6, 2017 at 10:20
I would choose Japanese as I am now married to an Irish. Even if I wasn’t married, I think I would choose Japanese only because it seems quite difficult to renounce Irish citizenship. I have enquired about this a number of times (not to actually renounce it but just out of curiosity) and I get advised not to.
I wish I felt as secure as Payton Miyazaki about my Japanese identity but I have to admit I am not there yet. I have only really accepted that I am both Japanese and Irish in the last few years. This will be my next step.
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Laila Lackmann says:
October 28, 2017 at 13:55
I would defenitely choose Japanese, since my other half is Palestinian, and its passport is valueless when traveling. I still keep it though, because it’s easier to go to Palestine as a Palestinian than as a foreigner.
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Joshua F says:
October 26, 2017 at 09:59
I used to think it would be Japan, only because it’s much harder to acquire Japanese nationality later if I changed my mind. But with the current political situation in Japan, I’m not sure. I might go with US.
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Ken Umezu says:
September 14, 2017 at 03:27
Probably USA. Going through US customs as a foreign national means wasting huge amount of time in queue
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Payton Miyazaki says:
September 4, 2017 at 12:12
I had to choose between my American and Japanese passport when I turned 22 and I chose my American, but it was an easy decision for me because I don’t think this choice makes me any less Japanese. I am still Japanese by blood, I just decided that an American passport just happens to be the passport that would be most convenient for me to have.
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- Bobby D says:
  November 9, 2017 at 20:06
  Hate to tell you this but, no, you did not. There are plenty of haafu with dual nationality just as there are Nihonjin born in the US who have it due to birthing rights but passport officials don’t bat an eye for those people.
  All you would have had to do when asked is deny you have another nationality. There’s no way for them to find out….
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