Originally posted by ggherkin at 4-8-2013 12:15
A lot of the "Japanese" WG I've met over the years were actually born in Japan, and are therefore truly Japanese, but their parents are Korean, so they are ethnically Korean.
Gherk
Nope, nationality laws in Japan are different to Europe. You can only be Japanese by blood or naturalization and not by being born there, they don't follow Jus Soli -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli
Japan is a jus sanguinis country.