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 |  Subject: More children born with a foreign parent  Sun Aug 17, 2008 7:11 pm | |
| Japan needs to deal with legal ramifications, experts say
One of every 30 babies born in Japan in 2006 had at least one parent originating from overseas, according to a recent government survey.
The survey by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry found that the mother, father or both parents of 35,651 babies born here originated from countries other than Japan. This represents about 3.2 percent of the 1.1 million babies born nationwide in 2006.
The survey indicates that an increasing number of foreign nationals coming to Japan for employment or study are settling in the country, experts said.
While the increase in children with at least one non-Japanese parent will broaden the range of cultural background among the country's residents, a lot more needs to be done to accept and provide legal protection for people from different backgrounds, they said.
Around 19,000 of the babies had non-Japanese fathers, 26,000 had non-Japanese mothers and 9,000 had parents who were both from abroad, according to the survey.
North and South Korean nationals formed the largest group among non-Japanese fathers, followed by Chinese and Brazilians. Among the non-Japanese mothers, Chinese were the largest group, followed by women from the Philippines and North and South Korea.
The trend reflects the increasing number of foreigners marrying Japanese nationals. Of newly registered marriages in 2006, 6.6 percent involved at least one foreign national.
Of the year's 49,000 marriages of mixed couples, about 36,000 involved a Japanese husband and non-Japanese wife.
Of the babies with at least one non-Japanese parent, 5.7 percent were born in Tokyo, followed by 4.9 percent in Aichi Prefecture and 4.5 percent in Mie Prefecture.
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