Expanded grants of special permission to







stay for stateless persons without status of residence Expanding the coverage of the grant of



Japanese nationality at birth to all otherwise stateless persons
Enhanced implementation of Article 2(iii) of the Nationality Act, which grants Japanese nationality to children born in Japan whose parents are unknown or stateless
Law reform to restrict losses of nationality by a change in legal parentage as far as possible
Improvement related to the requirement for renunciation of the current nationality prior to naturalization Improvement of implementation of Article






8(iv), which facilitates the naturalization of stateless persons and streamlining of the law to include stateless persons born outside Japan Facilitation of naturalization for refugees The authors wish to request the readers to note the following points in reading the report: ・The names of States added for convenience in parentheses merely show those States involved in the sample cases introduced in each category. Thus, States other than those indicated in the parentheses can also well produce statelessness falling within that category. ・ The summaries of cases introduced as typical cases in each category include the information necessary to explain the characteristics of each category, so they do not always lay out the facts comprehensively. ・Cases which do not have their sources specified are those which the authors of this report (attorneys) represented, for which they themselves have made summaries of the facts. ・Pseudonyms in the form of alphabetical characters are assigned to persons in each case study under each category in alphabetical order, starting from A in each category, to 20