Japan-born American files suit against Japan's dual nationality ban

A Japanese-born American said Thursday she has filed a lawsuit with a Japanese court claiming that the country's nationality law, which bans its citizens from also holding a foreign nationality, violates the Constitution.Yuri Kondo, 75, who currently lives in Fukuoka in southwestern Japan and filed the lawsuit at the Fukuoka District Court, said at a press conference with her legal team that acquiring U.S. citizenship should not have automatically stripped her of her Japanese one.Kondo, who was born in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, moved to the United States in 1971 to attend graduate scho…READ FULL ARTICLE