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On January 21 the Tokyo District Court issued the first decision on a lawsuit brought by six individuals who had lost their Japanese citizenship and two who feared they would. They are challenging as unconstitutional a provision in the Japanese Nationality Law that says, “A Japanese national will lose Japanese citizenship when the individual obtains a foreign citizenship on his or her own will.”