I'm annoyed with Sony

[Mr Khan]

Troll_Whisperer said:

Mr Khan said:
Yeah, this sort of crap is really the last frontier in a global economy, that all the companies and all the countries have all these little rules about digital services which should be perfectly transferable. I should be able to watch any YouTube video in any country on the planet, and my ATM Card should work in every bank machine everywhere. There's really no reason for this anymore, aside from petty nationalism.

And this is nothing.

If I have kids with my wife, they have to choose a nationality at the age of 22 because Japan won't allow its citizen to have dual nationality, even children with a parent from abroad. So after that they can't live in a country that its basically their own. Seriously..

Yes, the Japanese sadly often fall victim to this provincial mindset, it's culturally rooted in age-old perceptions of clearly delineating insiders and outsiders, the pure and the impure, etc. To their sensibilities you cannot be simultaneously Japanese and non-Japanese. It's gotta be one or the other.