• • • • • • • • • • • • • • Libya114 Kuwait115 Qatar Oman Togo Liberia Bahrain116 Barbados Mauritania Burundi The Bahamas Somalia Kiribati Swaziland (2) Possible Size of Category A The number of “total foreign residents in Japan”117 with a nationality among the 36 countries under (a) to (d) above is 386,543 as of the end of December 2016.118 There is no apparent way to grasp accurately how many children are born in Japan from these people and what percentage of such children encounter conflict of nationality laws. However, given the fact that there should be a significant number of marriages and birth involving citizens of the 36 States above, there should be a considerable amount of risk of statelessness being produced and various ways in which statelessness arises under Category A. 4. Solutions for Category A (1) Prevention One way to prevent statelessness arising from conflicts of laws regarding the acquisition of nationality may be to adopt internationally uniform criteria for the granting of nationality, but it would not be possible in practice. Moreover, in cases 1 and 2, it became clear that it is difficult in practice to persuade Paraguay or Myanmar to amend their laws regarding the 114 For English translation of relevant laws, see http://www.refworld.org/pdfid/4e2d8bf52.pdf. For English translation of relevant laws, see http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6b4ef1c.html. 116 For English translation of relevant laws, see http://www.refworld.org/docid/3fb9f34f4.html. 117 For the definition, see supra note 41. 118 Total number of foreign national residents in the “Statistics on Foreign National Residents” (December 2016), supra note 42. 115 52