The Yomiuri Shimbun
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has drawn up guidelines to
prevent financial exploitation of the adoption system in response to an
increasing number of profit-driven private adoption agencies.
The ministry notified prefectural and ordinance-designate d city
governments of the guidelines Monday. Local governments are responsible
for ensuring that private adoption agencies implement the new measures.
The majority of adoptions arranged by private agencies, are newborn
babies, adopted both domestically and overseas.
According to a survey conducted by the ministry in 2004, there were 76
instances in which children were adopted by overseas parents between
April 2001 and March 2004.
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Adoption profiteers face govt curbs
Adoption profiteers face govt curbs
Masaki Takakura Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer
With a view to preventing human trafficking masquerading under the guise
of child adoption, the government has established a new set of
regulations for adoption agencies. However, many questions remain
unaddressed.
Under current laws, privately run adoption agencies are allowed to
receive money from adoptive families in the form of expenses to cover
the costs entailed in arranging both domestic and overseas adoptions.
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry drafted a set of guidelines in
August--the first of their kind--detailing a concrete list and
definition of "expenses."
The list of expenses comprises 10 items, such as travel costs and
telephone bills, as well as counseling and related services offered by
the agencies to adoptive parents.
On Aug. 28, the ministry urged all 47 prefectural governments, and 15
major cities with adoption-related authorities, to tighten measures to
eliminate adoption agency profiteers.
The guidelines prohibit agencies from receiving any money prior to the
completion of the adoption process. However, "donations" are often
difficult to distinguish from legitimate costs for adoption services,
officials said....
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Masaki Takakura Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer
With a view to preventing human trafficking masquerading under the guise
of child adoption, the government has established a new set of
regulations for adoption agencies. However, many questions remain
unaddressed.
Under current laws, privately run adoption agencies are allowed to
receive money from adoptive families in the form of expenses to cover
the costs entailed in arranging both domestic and overseas adoptions.
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry drafted a set of guidelines in
August--the first of their kind--detailing a concrete list and
definition of "expenses."
The list of expenses comprises 10 items, such as travel costs and
telephone bills, as well as counseling and related services offered by
the agencies to adoptive parents.
On Aug. 28, the ministry urged all 47 prefectural governments, and 15
major cities with adoption-related authorities, to tighten measures to
eliminate adoption agency profiteers.
The guidelines prohibit agencies from receiving any money prior to the
completion of the adoption process. However, "donations" are often
difficult to distinguish from legitimate costs for adoption services,
officials said....
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Boy Found in Japan Unwanted Drop Box
Boy Found in Japan Unwanted Drop Box
Posted on: Tuesday, 15 May 2007,
00:00 CDT
TOKYO - A toddler was found in an anonymous drop box for unwanted children set up by a Catholic-run hospital in southern Japan, media reports said Tuesday.
The boy, believed to be 3 or 4-year-old, was found Thursday - the day the Jikei Hospital opened the baby drop-off in the southern city of Kumamoto to discourage abortions and the abandonment of children in unsafe public places.
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Posted on: Tuesday, 15 May 2007,
00:00 CDT
TOKYO - A toddler was found in an anonymous drop box for unwanted children set up by a Catholic-run hospital in southern Japan, media reports said Tuesday.
The boy, believed to be 3 or 4-year-old, was found Thursday - the day the Jikei Hospital opened the baby drop-off in the southern city of Kumamoto to discourage abortions and the abandonment of children in unsafe public places.
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Boy Placed in Japan's Only Baby Hatch
Boy Placed in Japan's Only Baby Hatch
Tuesday, 15 May 2007,
18:00 CDT
Kumamoto, May 15 (Jiji Press)--A boy believed to be three or four years old was placed in Japan's only baby hatch on its first day in use Thursday, sources familiar with the matter said Tuesday.
The boy is the first who has been left in the anonymous drop-off point for unwanted babies, installed at Jikei Hospital in this southwestern Japan city on May 1. The boy is believed to be in good health, the sources said....
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Tuesday, 15 May 2007,
18:00 CDT
Kumamoto, May 15 (Jiji Press)--A boy believed to be three or four years old was placed in Japan's only baby hatch on its first day in use Thursday, sources familiar with the matter said Tuesday.
The boy is the first who has been left in the anonymous drop-off point for unwanted babies, installed at Jikei Hospital in this southwestern Japan city on May 1. The boy is believed to be in good health, the sources said....
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Japan's 'baby hatch' sets off flood of advice seekers
Japan's 'baby hatch' sets off flood of advice seekers
Sep 6 12:54 PM
US/Eastern
Hundreds of people have called an advice hotline since a Japanese hospital opened a controversial "baby hatch," where seven children have been left anonymously, officials and reports said Thursday.
The Roman Catholic hospital set up the hatch in May in a bid to prevent abortions and unwanted children. It looks like a mailbox with pictures of storks and is modelled on a similar idea in Germany.
Conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has expressed outrage at the baby drop-off, saying it encourages irresponsibility, but he could find no legal grounds on which stop it being installed.
The hospital has declined to say how many children it has received, but reports said seven have been deposited....
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Sep 6 12:54 PM
US/Eastern
Hundreds of people have called an advice hotline since a Japanese hospital opened a controversial "baby hatch," where seven children have been left anonymously, officials and reports said Thursday.
The Roman Catholic hospital set up the hatch in May in a bid to prevent abortions and unwanted children. It looks like a mailbox with pictures of storks and is modelled on a similar idea in Germany.
Conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has expressed outrage at the baby drop-off, saying it encourages irresponsibility, but he could find no legal grounds on which stop it being installed.
The hospital has declined to say how many children it has received, but reports said seven have been deposited....
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"Baby hatch" highlights Japan fears over adoption
"Baby hatch" highlights Japan fears over adoption
Sun Jul 8, 2007 11:09pm EDT
By Isabel Reynolds
TOKYO (Reuters) - When a newborn baby girl was left in Japan's controversial "baby hatch" last week, the child's life may have been saved, but her chances of finding new parents were slim due to a cultural aversion to adoption in Japan.
The baby is one of four tots -- one of them three-years-old -- so far left at the "stork's cradle" baby hatch at the Catholic-run Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto, southern Japan.
A small door in the outside wall of the hospital opens to reveal a tiny bed inside, allowing parents to leave their child safely and anonymously. Once they do, an alarm goes off to alert hospital staff to the new arrival.
Similar facilities exist in Germany, where babies are offered for adoption after an eight week period during which birth parents can change their minds....
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Sun Jul 8, 2007 11:09pm EDT
By Isabel Reynolds
TOKYO (Reuters) - When a newborn baby girl was left in Japan's controversial "baby hatch" last week, the child's life may have been saved, but her chances of finding new parents were slim due to a cultural aversion to adoption in Japan.
The baby is one of four tots -- one of them three-years-old -- so far left at the "stork's cradle" baby hatch at the Catholic-run Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto, southern Japan.
A small door in the outside wall of the hospital opens to reveal a tiny bed inside, allowing parents to leave their child safely and anonymously. Once they do, an alarm goes off to alert hospital staff to the new arrival.
Similar facilities exist in Germany, where babies are offered for adoption after an eight week period during which birth parents can change their minds....
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Japan's first 'baby hatch' opens to controversy
Japan's first 'baby hatch' opens to controversy
May 10 03:42 AM
US/Eastern
Japan's first "baby hatch", where parents can drop off unwanted infants anonymously, opened Thursday despite opposition from the conservative national government. The baby hatch, modelled on a project in Germany, went into operation at a Roman Catholic hospital in the city of Kumamoto, some 900 kilometres (560 miles) southwest of Tokyo.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has urged Japan to return to "family values," opposed the idea but found no legal grounds to stop it.
"A mother must not leave her child or abandon him or her anonymously, " Abe told reporters.
"I want mothers to seek help first if they have problems," said Abe, who is childless after unsuccessful attempts with his wife Akie....
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May 10 03:42 AM
US/Eastern
Japan's first "baby hatch", where parents can drop off unwanted infants anonymously, opened Thursday despite opposition from the conservative national government. The baby hatch, modelled on a project in Germany, went into operation at a Roman Catholic hospital in the city of Kumamoto, some 900 kilometres (560 miles) southwest of Tokyo.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has urged Japan to return to "family values," opposed the idea but found no legal grounds to stop it.
"A mother must not leave her child or abandon him or her anonymously, " Abe told reporters.
"I want mothers to seek help first if they have problems," said Abe, who is childless after unsuccessful attempts with his wife Akie....
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A nurse demonstrates Japan's first "baby hatch"
A nurse demonstrates Japan's first "baby hatch" in Kumamoto, 01 May 2007. The first unwanted child has been dropped off at Japan's new "baby hatch," outraging the conservative government as news reports said it was boy who was already three or four years old.
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