Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The distinction between the meaning of the terms citizenship and nationality is not always clear in the English language and differs by country. Generally, nationality refers a person's legal belonging to a country and is the common term used in international treaties when referring to members of a state; citizenship refers to the set of rights and duties a person has in that nation.
Japan: A native of Michigan and a World War II Pacific theater Marine Corps veteran, Abegglen went on to a career as a professor of management and economics. He moved to Japan in 1982 and naturalized as a citizen of the country in 1997. [3] [4] 1982: 1997: Q2 1998: Ljubica Acevska: Diplomat Naturalized Republic of Macedonia
American expatriate sportspeople in Japan (7 C, 66 P) Pages in category "American expatriates in Japan" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 405 total.
One early American resident of Japan was Ranald MacDonald, who arrived in Japan in 1848 and was the first native speaker to teach the English language in Japan. In 1830, Nathaniel Savory was among the first settlers to colonize the remote Bonin Islands, an archipelago which was later incorporated by Japan.
Chiura Obata (1885–1975), well-known artist and recipient of the Order of the Sacred Treasure, 5th Class, for promoting goodwill and cultural understanding between the United States and Japan; Toshio Odate (born 1930), Japanese woodworker, sculptor, educator; born in Japan and moved to the United States in 1948.
Some move abroad because they simply cannot comfortably live on a fixed retirement income in the U.S., where the costs of housing and healthcare, especially, are becoming increasingly unaffordable.
As of December 2015 Japan had 13,831 asylum applications under review. [25] In 2016, more than 10,000 applications for refugee status in Japan were received and in the same year 28 asylum applications were approved. [26] In 2015, more than 7,500 people applied for refugee status and 27 asylum applications were approved.
Anabely Lopes wanted a child more than anything, so the 44-year-old was ecstatic when she became pregnant last year — and then devastated when doctors said her unborn child had a fatal abnormality.