Shinkun Haku
Haku Shinkun | |
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白 眞勲 | |
House of Councillors | |
In office 11 July 2004 – 25 July 2021 | |
Constituency | National PR |
Personal details | |
Born | Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan | 8 December 1958
Political party | CDP |
Other political affiliations |
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Alma mater | Nihon University |
Website | Official website |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 백진훈 |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Baek Jinhun |
McCune–Reischauer | Paek Chinhun |
Shinkun Haku (白 眞勲, Haku Shinkun, born 8 December 1958) is a Japanese
Haku was born to a South Korean father and Japanese mother. At the time of his birth, both South Korean nationality law and Japanese nationality law imputed nationality solely by patrilineal descent, and thus he had South Korean citizenship rather than Japanese citizenship at birth, with the legal name Baek Jinhoon (백진훈).[1] In 2003, he renounced his South Korean citizenship to naturalise as a Japanese citizen.
Haku worked for the
In the 2022 (
See also
References and footnotes
- multiple nationality, and South Korea only began permitting it in limited cases beginning in 2010.
External links
- Official website in Japanese.