13 more Japanese-Filipino children, 14 mothers leave for Japan

Monday 13th October, 02:46 PM JST

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14 Comments

timeon at 07:40 PM JST - 13th October

best of luck to them, but I have a question: why no word about the fathers?! because depending on that we can assess if to sympathize or not with these mothers
BlackFlag at 07:42 PM JST - 13th October

locate their Japanese fathers

something tells me the fathers aren't trying too hard to be found
dammit at 09:38 PM JST - 13th October

And I'd like to know how there can be 14 mothers if there are only 13 children.

Perhaps JT means 14 Filipino wives of Japanese? Or maybe there's something we don't know, after all, Japan is a very advanced country technologically!

Anyway, I'm surprised they're being allowed over. So many people make negative claims about Japan, yet here are a bunch of foreign women being allowed to come here and hunt down a bunch of pure-blood Japanese men to get money from them. (Possibly including one child with 2 mothers....)

But if these women think they're going to have a better life here they'll probably be severely disappointed. The streets aren't paved with gold, and life is just life, not an amazingly fantastic experience. Living as a foreigner isn't all it's cracked up to be. Ask any Indian or Pakistani living in the UK.
buggerlugs at 11:31 PM JST - 13th October

hahaha can see there maybe a few divorces when these fathers are found :) chances of them paying anything are low though...
meanmutha at 12:38 AM JST - 14th October

sad.
JPYuki at 01:47 AM JST - 14th October

Here are two possible answers to the question as to why there are 14 mothers and only 13 children.
1. The article said "...to live in their Japanese fathers’ or HUSBANDS’ homeland." Perhaps one of the mothers is just married to a Japanese national but does not have a child.
2. Perhaps one of the mothers is pregnant and has not delivered the child yet.
I don't think a child can have two BIOLOGICAL mothers. Of course, a child can have two mothers but that's another issue.
kringis at 05:12 AM JST - 14th October

I like it how there's currently an advertisement on this page (for me anyway) telling you how to "Find your Filipina Beauty today!" Perhaps the Japanese fathers also saw advertisements like that, hmm?
dammit at 06:54 AM JST - 14th October

JPYuki, the possibility of one of them being pregnant is vaguely possible of course, but I ruled it out of my thinking before my first post because I have a vision of the processing for Filipino spouses to come here being unnecessarily long and arduous. So I find it hard to believe that it could go through so quickly that a woman wouldn't have had time to give birth yet.

Unless of course she hasn't seen her J husband for years but just happens to currently be pregnant. Still, can't think why anyone would choose to have a baby in a foreign country. Specially one where the hospital staff are so overbearing and pushy. (Not to mention the fact that they seem to have sponsors who colour their recommendations.)

Of course, going back to your number 1 possibility, if one of the mothers is married to a Japanese but doesn't have a child then she isn't a mother. Unless a child died.

But why don't these men just get divorced? Why hang onto a wife you don't want and never see? If they did want these women, they'd make arrangements for a spouse of Japanese visa for them and this rigmarole wouldn't happen.
memyselfI at 09:35 AM JST - 14th October

Good Luck trying to get money from the fathers. Even Japanese divorced wives have problems with deadbeat dads. The half Japanese/Filipino teenagers will have it hard the most. Because they might not even know how to speak the language. It might make the situation much worse. I hope these kids get a suitable education and job training. Because life will be difficult not easy.
kjunluc2 at 09:56 AM JST - 14th October

14 women, 13 children. Big international mathematical problem. 6th woman is a subset. Maybe she had an abortion or hysterectomy. Hope this problem doesn't keep me awake tonight.
borscht at 10:58 AM JST - 14th October

Maybe the 14th child is busy at his or her job and can't make it to Japan this month. And, having never me his or her father, could care less about him. But the mother wants to see an old flame.
dammit at 01:28 PM JST - 14th October

Okay, this is JTs fault. They wrote

the children, aged 6 to 19, and their mothers, mostly in their 30s,

which specifically claims that the women are the mothers of the children in the article.

Here's an article which actually informs.

http://www.yehey.com/news/Article.aspx?id=226455 Now memyselfI can relax because they've all had language training and those of relevant ages have had 'skill training' so they can get jobs, Kjunluc2 can calm down and relax the sarcasm, and I can rest now I know that the women are all mothers of Japino kids, just not necessarily the kids in the article.
kjunluc2 at 03:43 AM JST - 15th October

Damn it, dammit. Just jokin'.
kjunluc2 at 03:56 AM JST - 15th October

My sarcasm was directed toward the article. If they printed such things here it would require an extra section of new tailored for immigration. Didn't mean to offend.

kjunluc2@yahoo.com