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For example, Nyororin's son can basically keep both nationalities and although Japanese govt says that people with dual citizenship must decided before 22, many people end up just not reporting and keep both passports.
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A random note - my son does not have dual citizenship. He only has Japanese citizenship. We attempted to register him for US citizenship after he was born, but the embassy requested that we do so within 90 days of his birth or face triple fees. Fine - but he was in the hospital for 5 months after birth and definitely not in a state that would allow us to take passport photos. (Unobstructed face? Umm, not when you`re on life support.) The refused to work with us on this point, telling us 1) Bring him in, along with a medical team to keep him alive for the trip to Osaka and back. or 2) Bring in 3 doctors to verify that what we were saying was true - along with a translator certified by the embassy ($$$$$) if they couldn`t speak fluent English.
And, after clarifying the situation, they had the nerve to say "Why bother registering him? He`s not going to survive anyway."
Never mind that. We can cope without US citizenship, thank you very much.
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I'm surprised you've actually received reactions like that given how long you've lived there and that you're married with a child too. Seriously, seeing that you're pursuing a Japanese citizenship doesn't surprise me in the least. It makes sense since you have no intention of returning to the US to reside.
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The natural assumption, it seems, even among 99% of the other foreign wives in Japan is that the ultimate goal is to take family back to whatever country I was born in. The very idea of taking Japanese citizenship is something unthinkable.
The current thinking seems to be that having US citizenship is much "safer" than Japanese. Especially as "You`ll never really be Japanese anyway!"