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Re:Japan implements language proficiency requirements for ce... by nvch on Thursday April 16, 2026 @04:33PM (#47799136)
Not exactly. I got (and renewed) the Swiss permit with zero knowledge of any official language. However, my wife had to present the basic certificate or my promise that she would learn the language.
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Re:Japan implements language proficiency requirements for ce... by mothballed on Thursday April 16, 2026 @05:07PM (#47799516)
Japan, ~like the US~, has no official language.

(edit: ~strike~)

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Re:Japan implements language proficiency requirements for ce... by hogehoge51 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @07:49PM (#47800968)
Japan also tends to leave many contextual and obvious things unstated, and relies on group concensus and information exchange between in group peers over top down authority, so may consider the ultimate group concensus, language, not needing to be codified.

Although i do wonder what my son's 国語 text books teach if Japanese is not the official 国語.

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Re:Japan implements language proficiency requirements for ce... by esseph on Thursday April 16, 2026 @05:16PM (#47799600)
> Japan, like the US, has no official language.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/desi...

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Re:Japan implements language proficiency requirements for ce... by crooked-v on Thursday April 16, 2026 @06:22PM (#47800290)
POTUS doesn't have the power to set an official language.
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Re:Japan implements language proficiency requirements for ce... by esseph on Thursday April 16, 2026 @07:09PM (#47800691)
It's not the Department of War, either. Still says that everywhere.
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Re:Japan implements language proficiency requirements for ce... by Starman_Jones on Thursday April 16, 2026 @07:45PM (#47800944)
Talk is cheap.
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Re:Japan implements language proficiency requirements for ce... by corndoge on Thursday April 16, 2026 @08:27PM (#47801185)
Actually they are following through, check the news
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Re:Japan implements language proficiency requirements for ce... by red-iron-pine on Friday April 17, 2026 @10:41AM (#47806485)
the US Dept of War is doing far more than just talk tho.

see also: half of the middle east on fire.

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Re:Japan implements language proficiency requirements for ce... by UltraSane on Friday April 17, 2026 @12:31AM (#47802466)
Legal documents, contracts, and court filings must continue to use Department of Defense because legally the Department of War doesn't exist.
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Re:Japan implements language proficiency requirements for ce... by throwawaypath on Friday April 17, 2026 @03:23PM (#47809595)
Why not? Maybe they do?
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