For all those bazzilion I want to be a Japanese citizen/ preminant resitant people
 

Japan times helps break it down, get married win the Olympics or forget it:

Arbitrary rulings equal bad PR | The Japan Times Online

but on a lighter note there was an article where a cat had been promoted to super station master, the only female manager in the company of some railway company, they made the station unmanned 2 years ago due to budget cuts but the cat stayed. That made my day the guy next to me couldn't understand why I was laughing so hard

or u could just become a seal......iｔ might be easier than winning an olympic medal or getting the nobel prize.

The easiest way to become a Japanese citizen:

Marry Nagoyankee!!

I need to keep a copy of that article bookmarked so I can send it to anyone who gripes about the U.S. Immigration policy being unfair when we try to enforce it.

I can see both sides of this issue in Japan. There is serious overcrowding, so why would they want more people - especially foreigners which will inevitably change their culture. On the otherhand, they are not retaining or acquiring the professional class of the workforce, which will eventually hurt their culture too.

However, there is no excuse for not standardizing the process and opening decisions up for review.

Unfortunately, the article was about them refusing 永住権 even to those who WERE married. So I doubt that will help. :P

I seriously don't see why becoming a citizen is so important.

you can't do lots of stuff without permanent residence like get large loans lol.

Well, yeah. Not that that seems like something to strive for, but I know it's needed sometimes :)

as long as u don't root for the giants.

Ugh~ I'm new here and was about to post up my story and ask for advice, but that's making the whole idea quite... bleak.