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Naturalization refers to the voluntary, proactive act of a person obtaining the nationality of another country besides their country of birth. It generally applies to people living abroad who acquire a new nationality in accordance with the laws of their country of residence.

Put simply, it meant changing one's nationality—turning from a citizen of Country A into a citizen of Country B.

If an ordinary person wanted to change their nationality, the whole process would naturally be extremely cumbersome, and the odds of success would be very low.

But if someone with outstanding achievements in a certain field—or at least the potential for them—wanted to change nationality, it would naturally be much easier. After all, no country would refuse talented people willingly coming to them.

Those complicated, difficult procedures for ordinary people would become little more than a formality.

Clearly, Wu Yufei's phenomenal performance in leading the Tokyo Thunder to fourteen straight wins had caught the attention of some high-ranking Japanese officials. They intended to turn Wu Yufei directly into a Japanese citizen.

Setting aside other fields, let's talk only about sports.

The Japanese had long become highly experienced at naturalizing foreign athletes.

As early as the beginning of the 1970s, Japan had begun naturalizing Brazilian football players. After achieving some success, it quickly expanded the practice into other sports.

Some of them were foreigners who had grown up in Japan, while others were ethnic Japanese born and raised overseas with foreign nationalities who were then naturalized back into Japan. Most of them were mixed-race and had Japanese blood to begin with, so becoming naturalized athletes was still somewhat understandable.

But beyond those two categories, there was a third: Japan directly scouted talent from other countries, then used all kinds of benefits and promises to attract them into taking Japanese