Japan's adoption rules changed to allow older kids' ties to biological parents to be severed

They're beefing up their market.

The Diet on Friday passed a revision to increase the upper age limit at which a child can be adopted under a special system that allows ties to their biological parents to be severed.

Formerly, children’s ties to their biological parents could only be cut before the age of 6, but under the revised law children 14 and younger are now eligible.

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Child adoption agency in Osaka shut down over profit motivation

City authorities here decided not to grant a private online adoption agency a license on grounds it offered its services for profit and engaged in other unlawful activities.

The March 19 decision followed skepticism expressed by experts about the group's activities and is the first known case of a license being denied since the permit system was introduced a year ago.

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Canadian fights to see son in Japan, where legal system leaves many parents behind

A Canadian man living in Japan who has spent years trying to reconnect with his son after a marriage breakdown says under the current system, his best chance at restoring visitation would be to move — all the way back to Canada.

Tim Terstege, a 44-year-old Barrie, Ont., native, says he last saw his son during a supervised visit three years ago. Today, he doesn't know where his wife and son are but suspects they are in the city of Yokohama, about 40 kilometres south of Tokyo, where his wife took his son after the couple split.

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Foreign divorced parents fight in vain for child custody in Japan

Emmanuel, Stephane, Henrik and James come from very different backgrounds, but they share the same painful experience of battling Japan's legal system -- in vain -- for access to their children after divorce.

Once married to Japanese women, they say they were prevented from contact with their children when their relationships disintegrated, sometimes even after court rulings in their favor.

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Japan’s child abuse hotline may go toll-free to reduce high hang-up rate

The welfare ministry has decided to make calls to its child abuse hotline free increase staffing at child consultation centers, informed sources said.

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Parents stranded in Japan relieved as Canada issues visas for adopted children

After many sleepless nights in Tokyo hotel rooms, five Canadian families will finally be able to return home with the Japanese-born children they are adopting.

After weeks of being caught in bureaucratic confusion over cross-Pacific adoptions, the Canadian Embassy in Manila has issued the necessary visas for the children to return home with their adoptive parents, according to one of the parents involved.

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VISAS DENIED FOR ADOPTED BABIES: 5 B.C. families stuck in Japan

Ryan Hoag spent his first Father’s Day separated from his wife and baby daughter by more than 7,500 kilometres and reams of red tape.

Hoag’s family is stuck in Toyko unable to return to their home in Coquitlam, B.C., because the federal government won’t issue a visa for the newly adopted infant.

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Japan on U.S. list of nations noncompliant with Hague Treaty

WASHINGTON (Jiji Press) — The U.S. State Department on Wednesday listed Japan as one of countries showing a pattern of noncompliance with the so-called Hague Treaty that sets procedures to settle cross-border parental child abduction cases.

Japan joined the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction in 2014, and it is the first time since then that the nation has been put on the list in the department’s annual report on the issue of children taken by one parent following the breakup of international marriages.

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Study of child abuse in welfare facilities

A survey by Japan's welfare ministry shows that children living apart from their guardians at welfare facilities have experienced sexual and physical abuse from other children.

As of March last year, more than 26,000 children nationwide were living in care facilities. They were unable to live with their parents due to abuse and other factors.

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State to examine sex abuse among children at welfare facilities

The central government will open a fact-finding investigation into child-against-child sexual abuse at welfare institutions nationwide, an underreported problem whose severity was recently exposed by shocking revelations in Mie Prefecture.

The move by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare followed the Mie prefectural government’s disclosure that at least 111 such sexual abuse cases occurred at child welfare facilities in the prefecture over nine years from fiscal 2008.

Under the Child Welfare Law, prefectural authorities are required to inform the central government about sexual violence committed by staff workers against children at these institutions.

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Social workers in the UK are working an average of 64 days of overtime a year, leading care workers associations to warn that overworking increases the risks of child abuse cases such as that involving Baby P.

More >> Warning Baby P case could be repeated as social workers forced to do 64 days' overtime a year

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Latest Update: Seattle Mayor Denies CPS Assessment He Sexually Abused Foster Son

Records previously thought destroyed provide the clearest picture yet of the investigation of claims Ed Murray sexually abused his foster son.

More >> Seattle Mayor Ed Murray sexually abused foster son, child-welfare investigator found in 1984

• Oregon opens records of sexual-abuse investigation into Ed Murray, acting ‘in public interest’

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Legally Kidnapped should be included in this, should it?


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STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (NBC News) Two former leaders at Penn State will serve jail time more than 10 years after the school's sexual abuse scandal.

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TOKYO — James Cook wants his four children home in Minnesota. His estranged wife, Hiromi Arimitsu, says they want to stay with her in Japan. And so they have been going around in circles through the courts for almost three years.

More >> Japan signed abduction treaty but for ‘left-behind’ parents that doesn’t mean much 
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What can be more shamelessly, terrifyingly brutal than the righteous, benign mask of progressivism? After humiliating themselves before the universe as the tyrants that they are, the commissars at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital, unwilling to admit that stealing babies from their parents in order to murder them is unethical, have doubled down on their moral turpitude.

More >> Tyranny Bares Its Teeth (to Protect Babies, of Course)

Abused children find Japan’s shelters provide little comfort

Every year, more than 20,000 abused, delinquent, developmentally challenged or otherwise troubled Japanese children needing emergency housing pass through a system of shelters.

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Japanese thwart Canadian parents' struggle to access abducted children

A Canadian father is hoping a mountain hike will help ease his distress and draw attention to the insurmountable roadblocks countless parents like him face in trying to access their children in Japan after their marriages fall apart.

More >> Japanese thwart Canadian parents' struggle to access abducted children

• ‘Whoever abducts the child first is going to get custody’: Canadian man fights Japan for access to son

Japan Rewamps Child Welfare, Pushes for Increased Foster Care

A baby lies in a metal-bar cot drinking from a bottle perched on his pillow in a Tokyo orphanage. There’s no one to hold and feed him or offer words of comfort.

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When tragedy strikes, social media blames parents first

It doesn't matter where you live or what part of the political spectrum you fall on — sometimes, nothing feels better than a little self-righteous fury.
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And while there were multiple parties responsible for each trauma, social media targeted their heartfelt rage on one particularly familiar group: the parents.

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Court orders Korean dad to return children to separated Japanese wife

A Seoul lower court Monday ruled that children moved abroad without the consent of a parent holding custodial rights must be returned to the residence country if the couple remains separated. This marks the first case to follow the international convention on the abduction of children.

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Japanese company manufactures lifelike child sex dolls for paedophiles

Japanese company manufactures lifelike child sex dolls for paedophiles

A Japanese company produces lifelike child sex dolls - claiming they prevent paedophiles from offending.

Note: They should give these to foster parents!  

Japan repatriates 8 children in 1st year under Hague abduction treaty

Japan repatriates 8 children in 1st year under Hague abduction treaty

Japan has repatriated eight children to or from other countries in the year since it joined the Hague Convention on child abductions, according to the Foreign Ministry.

Japan returns boy to Germany under new child custody treaty

Japan returns boy to Germany under new child custody treaty

The Japanese government has helped return a boy to his German home in the first such case since adopting an international treaty on cross-border child custody disputes, an official said Wednesday.

• Boy returns to Germany under Hague pact, in first for Japan

Japan's throwaway children

Japan's throwaway children

In a country that frowns upon foster care, 33,000 children from abusive homes are growing up in state institutions.