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1. By becoming the husband of a Japanese woman who is the head of a house, at the same time entering her house;
2. By being acknowledged by his father or mother who is a Japanese subject;
3. By adoption by a Japanese subject;
4. By naturalization.

The requisites for an alien’s acquiring Japanese nationality by acknowledgment are as follows:—

1. The child must be a minor according to the law of his nationality;
2. The child must not be the wife of an alien;
3. The parent who first acknowledges the child must be a Japanese subject;
4. If both parents acknowledge the child at the same time, the father must be a Japanese subject.

With the permission of the Minister of the Home Department an alien may be naturalized on the following conditions:—

1. He must have had his domicile in Japan for five consecutive years;
2. He must be at least twenty years old and a person of full capacity by the law of his nationality;
3. He must be a person of honest behaviour;
4. He must have either property or working ability sufficient for an independent livelihood;
5. He must have no nationality or must lose his nationality on acquiring Japanese nationality.