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Japanese or the husband of a Japanese woman who is the head of the house has not the following rights:—

  1. The right to become a Minister of State, a Minister of the Imperial Household or Keeper of the Privy Seal;
  2. The right to become president, vice-president or a member of the Privy Council;
  3. The right to hold the position of a general or admiral;
  4. The right to become president of the Supreme Court, of the Board of Accounts or of the Administrative Litigation Court;
  5. The right to hold the position of Court Councillor;
  6. The right to be elected as or to vote for a member of the Imperial Diet.

17.

The Minister of the Home Department with the sanction of the Emperor may except from the restrictions of the preceding article a person who has been naturalized under the provisions of Art. 11, after five years from the time when he acquired Japanese nationality, or any other person after ten years.

18.

A Japanese woman who marries an alien loses thereby her nationality.

19.

A person who by marriage or adoption has acquired Japanese nationality loses it on divorce or the dissolu-

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