Chicago residents Mari, a Japanese national, and Jonathon, an American, considered adopting from the U.S. or South Korea, but cultural and citizenship concerns sealed their decision to adopt from Japan. The new addition is one of only a handful of children adopted from Japan ...
Around one in 49 babies born in Japan today are of mixed heritage. That's a surprising figure considering that the country was closed off to foreigners for close to three centuries, way back when. Until about two decades ago ha￣fu (meaning "half-Japanese") were viewed ...
Hapa haole celebrated in Hawaii I'm writing about an article published in your newspaper and written by Ryan Surdick with the title "There is more to my son than the fact he's a 'half' "(The Foreign Element, July 29). A perspective from Hawaii where my two ...
Confounding 'half' stereotypes Re: "There is more to my son than the fact he's a 'half' " by Ryan Surdick (The Foreign Element, July 29): I'm a bicultural teenage girl and I have lived in Japan since I was 8 months old. I connected to this ...
For foreign residents, having a child in Japan can be a daunting prospect. Going to the hospital and trying to figure out what the doctor is saying in complex Japanese medical terms is just one of myriad trials.
