related to their status being similar to refugees (Sample cases from Vietnam and
Myanmar) ...................................................................................................................................... 70
Category E
[Change of personal status] Persons who had acquired Japanese
nationality at birth but due to a subsequent change in legal parentage “lost” such
nationality retroactively going back to the time of birth (Sample cases from
ROK/Japan, China/Japan) ......................................................................................................... 78
Category F [Failure of naturalization and restoration of previous nationality] Persons
who renounced their previous nationality in the naturalization or nationality
restoration process who nevertheless failed to acquire another nationality (Sample
cases from Pakistan, China/Bolivia） .................................................................................... 90
Category G [Unknown or stateless parents] Persons whose parents are unknown or
are stateless (Sample cases from Philippines, Thailand/China) ....................................... 95
Category H [Consulate denial III (Others)] Persons understood to have acquired the
nationality of the country concerned according to the text of the nationality law of
that country, for whom nevertheless the relevant consular authorities refuse birth
registration or the issuance of a passport (Sample cases from China, Myanmar) ... 103
Section 2: Categories of persons whose statelessness or risk of statelessness arose
while overseas and who subsequently came to Japan....................................................... 110
Category I [Lack of proof] Persons who cannot establish the nationality of their
country of birth or of their parents’ nationality (Sample case from Thailand/Vietnam）
...................................................................................................................................................... 110
Category J [State succession II]: Persons whose country of previous nationality has
gone through State succession who cannot have their possession of the nationality of
the successor State or the predecessor State confirmed (Sample cases from the Soviet
Union/Georgia) ......................................................................................................................... 116
Category K [Persons denied nationality under the law of the country of origin]
Persons who cannot acquire nationality under the law of the relevant country (Sample
cases from Myanmar) .............................................................................................................. 121
Section 3: Other categories of persons .................................................................................. 126
Category L Unregistered persons ........................................................................................ 126
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