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They’re surely not recording your conversation. Today’s convenience is the soil of tomorrow’s turmoil.

Because acquiring multiple passports is to gain backup options if things are going under. Japan sits right next to Taiwan and China, the countries that are most likely flashpoint for a conflict in the next decade. I, myself, gave up my East Asian passport to acquire the Canadian and Irish passports, which gives me two options: if North America goes downhill, I can move within the EU, and vice versa.

Japan is probably not the best choice if your goal is a second or third passport, as others mentioned above. Countries outside East Asia, especially in Europe, tend to be more lenient about granting citizenship through naturalization, and many have friendlier tax systems (i.e., unlike the U.S., they don’t tax citizens who live abroad)