OSAKA (Kyodo) A baby born to an Indian surrogate mother under contract to a Japanese man arrived in Japan on Sunday after the government gave the child a one-year visa on humanitarian grounds.

The girl had been unable to leave India for three months because she doesn't hold Indian or Japanese citizenship.

The girl, who was born in late July, arrived at Kansai International Airport from India accompanied by the Japanese man's mother.

The government issued the visa Oct. 27 after India granted her a travel certificate in September in line with a decision by that nation's Supreme Court.

The father, who is in his 40s, has not clarified what will happen to the child next, people close to him said.