As an academic panel prepares to offer its judgment on the ethics of surrogate birth and related issues, a group of people conceived through artificial insemination by donors is going public to shed light on existing problems.
Everyone in the group was conceived with sperm donated by a third person because the fathers were infertile due to illness or other causes.
Conceiving children through artificial insemination by donor, or AID, has existed in Japan for about 60 years, although the practice is largely kept under wraps.