Kumamoto – A government regional branch on Thursday refused to express its opinion on a possible legal problem with what could become Japan’s first confidential birth.
The Justice Ministry’s Kumamoto District Legal Affairs Bureau said it cannot answer a question from Jikei Hospital asking whether submitting a birth notification without the mother’s name would violate the Penal Code.
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