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Draft of the Law Concerning
Nationality.
1.
A child is a Japanese subject, if at the time of his birth his father is such. The same applies, if the father, having died before the child’s birth, was a Japanese subject at the time of his death.
2.
If the father before the birth of the child loses his Japanese nationality by divorce or by a dissolution of adoption, the provisions of the preceding article apply with relation back to the beginning of the pregnancy.
The provisions of the foregoing paragraph do not apply, if both parents quit the house, unless the mother returns to the house before the birth of the child.
3.
When the father is unknown or has no nationality, the child is a Japanese subject, if the mother is such.
4.
If both parents of a child born in Japan are unknown or have no nationality, the child is a Japanese subject.
5.
An alien acquires Japanese nationality in the following cases:—
- By becoming the wife of a Japanese;