Parental Rights in Japan?

[RobinMask]

This may be looking ahead some what but I thought it worth asking. I've heard many stories that when a foriegner and a Japanese person have a child that the foriegner - should they divorce - has virtually no rights to the child. In fact I've read many times, even on this forum, that the Japanese parent can abduct the child back to their home-country, or refuse access to the child.

The thing is the stories seem to be about Japanese mothers/foriegn fathers, so my question is do foriegn mothers get more rights than the foriegn fathers? I.E If I had a child with a Japanese man and things didn't work out, would I still have rights to the child being its mother? If not then were we not married, the child had an English passport and etc. would I get rights then over the partner?

[spicytuna]

Hi,

Here's a link to a good article :
Japan Divorce, Prenuptial, Separation, International Family Law

[RobinMask]

Originally Posted by spicytuna

Hi,

Here's a link to a good article :
Japan Divorce, Prenuptial, Separation, International Family Law

Thank you for the link

It was quite useful, and suprisingly foriegners have even less rights than I imagined. I think should I ever marry abroad I'll be sure to write a pre-nup, and return to have the baby in my home-country if I get pregnant. It's a terrifying thought how little rights the foriegn parent has.