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PAULH · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 4672 Location: Western Japan

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PAULH · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 4672 Location: Western Japan

sushi · Joined: 28 Aug 2005 Posts: 145

How is it for children born to non Japanese women from japanese fathers, and whose fathers take off and leave them. There are many Philopina women here with half japanessee children who are fighting for japanesse rights for their chidren. Will they have any success?

PAULH · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 4672 Location: Western Japan

Gordon · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 5309 Location: Japan

6810 · Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 309

since if the Japanese father doesn't "recognise" the child.

there is a big article on this in Sunday's Yomiuri.

JimDunlop2 · Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 2286 Location: Japan

Japan is one of the only countries in the world where being born here doesn't have ANY bearing on your nationality.

If you are a baby born in Japan with both foreign parents, then by DEFINITION you have no right to Japanese citizenship. You must obtain your country's nationality for your child via. your embassy within the first month after the baby is born.

(Source: Survival Guide: A Guide to Foreigners' Rights in Japan, 3A Books: Tokyo. 2005)

Gordon · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 5309 Location: Japan

You're right Jim and you have to register your child with immigration within the first 2 weeks. No one told me and I went after 6 weeks. They were really ticked off, but let me register him. Like I had nothing better to do than go to the immigrastion office in the first 2 weeks after his birth.

Dipso · Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 194 Location: England

canuck · Joined: 11 May 2003 Posts: 1921 Location: Japan

abufletcher · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:40 am Post subject:

fox1 · Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 268

Zzonkmiles · Joined: 05 Apr 2003 Posts: 309

[quote="fox1"][quote]how do you know[/quote]

[quote="PAULH"]we know lots of stuff you don't know.[/quote]

?????? i was saying "how do you know" to the statement: [i]"but you don't have a family or children in Japan".[/i][/quote]

Look, YOU are the one who said you were looking for new roommates from Asian countries. I would think that most people who had spouses or children would not want to live with roommates. YOU are also the one who has asked many, many questions about living in Osaka. You asked about finding a certain type of tuna and finding other odds and ends. But you haven't asked ANYTHING about issues families would generally care about (i.e., support groups for families with small children, day care services, international schools, spouse employment, etc.). YOU also talked about living in China before you came to Japan. While it's not unheard of, I don't think most families are too keen on constantly uprooting themselves as they switch from job to job and country to country. It's a lot easier to do that when you are single and unattached. YOU talked about how amazed you were by Japan initially, but you have made NO mention of how your "family" might be adjusting to it. YOU said you work for NOVA. It is IMPOSSIBLE to support a family on a NOVA salary unless your spouse was working too and/or you had absolutely no outstanding bills to pay. YOU are the one who asked about switching from JMA (NOVA's) insurance, which would mean you are not covered under a spouse's plan--presumably because no spouse exists.

It's quite obvious that you don't have a family or children in Japan. There's nothing wrong with that. Most of us here are the same in that regard.

Having said that, it's also quite obvious that you're just here (on this board) to argue with people and get them all worked up over nothing.