TOKYO The Tokyo High Court on Tuesday rejected a request to confirm that an 8-year-old boy born out of wedlock to a Filipino woman and a Japanese man has Japanese nationality, overturning an earlier court ruling which recognized him as a Japanese national.
The high court said, even if the Nationality Law provision, which mandates different treatment for children born to married couples and those born out of wedlock, was ruled unconstitutional, it would not enable the boy to gain Japanese nationality under the current system.

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