The Supreme Court has upheld a decision that granted a mother custody of her 9-year-old daughter, finalizing a high-profile dispute over custody rights. After the couple separated in May 2010, their relationship worsened. The woman then absconded with the daughter without her husband's consent, the ...
A reader wrote to Lifelines recently about the subject of dividing property upon divorce.
The second in a series of selections of unpublished letters about Community stories from the previous year.
Despite winning return orders in court, foreign fathers are treated like offenders.
Two adult daughters contacted Lifelines hoping to get help with issues related to their fathers.
Lifelines addresses questions received about what is unfortunately a common concern among readers: divorce.
Once part of a panopticon-like system in which everyone would feel that they were being monitored but could also participate in the monitoring process, the kosei is now showing its age.
Family registry system can seem schizophrenic but its authority keeps citizens out of the courts.
"I am married to a Japanese male and am worried my husband might file a divorce notification paper without my knowledge," writes a "desperate" reader.
A couple of years have passed since Japan signed the international convention on child abduction, and there is cause for celebration — and concern.
An American asks if he can hire a Japanese lawyer to find out whether his current wife is legally divorced from the Japanese man she once married.
While the Supreme Court ruling said there is nothing unconstitutional about compelling married couples to register under one name, they didn't expressly limit marriage to a man and a woman.
