I agree, it’s so off topic.

1. Nerds like Japan.

2. People with money like acquiring passports.

3. This community has above average representation of both.

I upvoted it because I found it interesting. That is all.

The study of arcane procedures and immigration of all sorts comes up here very often.

It's not but to be fair HN is full of similar exaggerated instances "I migrated my backend to COBOL because it was faster" (it's really not btw)

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. [0]

This gratifies intellectual curiosity -- how does one become a citizen in one of the most isolationist countries? What is that like??? Read this to find out.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I knew Japan made it difficult. I clicked, I read the whole thing. Now I know Japan makes it (nearly) impossible.

I'm a typical HN reader (I think) and I found it interesting. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯