(2) Protection First of all, if Japan pursues the further stabilization of the status of asylum seekers and enhances the specific protection policies after recognition as refugees in line with the object and purpose of the 1951 Refugee Convention, stateless refugee persons falling under Category C would naturally be protected. Furthermore, from the perspective of the protection of stateless persons, introducing a statelessness determination and protection system would ensure that such persons would be protected to some extent even if they are not recognized as refugees. (Refer to the proposals under Category A in terms of the desirable contents of a statelessness determination and protection system, as well as of relevant systems relating to residential status and special permission to stay.) (3) Reduction As mentioned in (1) above, first, facilitated naturalization procedures should be put in place and implemented in accordance with Article 34 of the 1951 Refugee Convention for refugee parents. Also, under the current circumstances in which the addition of Article 2(iv) to the Nationality Act has not yet materialized, if facilitated and rapid acquisition of Japanese nationality is made possible based on Article 8(iv) for stateless refugees born in Japan, then a steady reduction of statelessness would be possible. Moreover, in parallel with the above, from the perspective of actively reducing statelessness, the introduction of legislation to facilitate the naturalization of stateless persons regardless of their place of birth would open the way for first-generation refugees to acquire Japanese nationality and further reduce statelessness, as explained under Category B [State succession I]. http://www.refworld.org/docid/50d460c72.html (in English) and http://www.refworld.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/rwmain/opendocpdf.pdf?reldoc=y&docid=548996e74 (in Japanese), para. 28. Also, for the latest discussions relating to nationality and the statelessness of refugee children, see Gabor Gyulai (for European Council on Refugees and Exiles), “The right to a nationality of refugee children born in the EU” (February 2017), at https://www.ecre.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/refugee-children-nationality-LEAP-leaflet.pdf. 69