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Mina Myoi, known mononymously as Mina, a member of South Korean idol group Twice, was born in San Antonio, Texas, to Japanese parents. She moved to Japan as a toddler and relinquished her US citizenship in order to satisfy Japan's requirement that dual citizens by birth must choose a nationality before the age of 22. [244] early 2000 s 2019 or ...
In the 1990s, a large proportion of individuals relinquishing citizenship were naturalized citizens returning to their countries of birth; for example, the State Department indicated to the JCT that many of the 858 U.S. citizens who renounced in 1994 were former Korean Americans who returned to South Korea and resumed their citizenship there ...
Kawakita flew to Japan on December 13, 1963, [22] and reacquired Japanese citizenship upon his arrival. [14]: 431 In 1978, Kawakita sought permission to travel to the United States to visit his parents' grave, but his efforts were unsuccessful. [3] [14]: 431–432 As of late 1993, he was living quietly with relatives in Japan. [23]
List of denaturalized former citizens of the United States; List of former United States citizens who relinquished their nationality; Quarterly Publication of Individuals Who Have Chosen to Expatriate, a U.S. government publication listing the names of certain former U.S. citizens
The Los Angeles Times will no longer use "internment" to describe the mass incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II. No, my Japanese American parents were not ...
The United States government first released a list of former U.S. citizens in a State Department letter to Congress made public by a 1995 Joint Committee on Taxation report. [4] That report contained the names of 978 people who had relinquished U.S. citizenship between January 1, 1994 and April 25, 1995. [5]
Miné Okubo (1912–2001), Nisei, painter, author of Citizen 13660, her book documenting life during her confinement in the Japanese American internment Yoko Ono (1933–), artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon
The Japanese American Citizens' League (JACL) asked for three measures to be taken as redress: $25,000 to be awarded to each person who was detained, an apology from Congress acknowledging publicly that the U.S. government had been wrong, and the release of funds to set up an educational foundation for the children of Japanese American families.