Homeland Law
According to an Act of Japan on general rules,
- The homeland law of a person is the law of the country of citizenship of the person.
- If a person has more than one citizenship, and if one of the citizenships is Japan, the homeland law is the law of Japan;
- If a person has more than one citizenship, and none of them is Japanese, the homeland law of the person is the law of the country where the person habitually lives.
- as to a concerned person with nationality of a nation in which laws are different according to locality (like the US), the homeland law is the local law under rules of the nation or, if the nation doesn't have such rules, the homeland law is the law of the local area which is most closely related to the person.
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