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Originally Posted by BokiB
You can or you have to? I thought it was a legal obligation to take a Japanese name
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I think that's only if you take up citizenship. To be a permanent resident I would imagine its optional, as Sangetsu seems to say. Even then I'm not sure about it being obligatory to take up a Japanese name when one becomes a citizen, I think that rule no longer exists (assuming I'm right in that it existed at all).
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Japanese nationality law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - yeah, according to wikipedia (reliable, I know . . . ) it was only when becoming a citizen that one had to adopt a Japanese name, and this practise stopped around the 80's.