Going to the U.S. looking for a surrogacy? That's how Japanese stars operate

Chinese Herald News In the past few days, the news that Zheng Shuang Zhang Heng is looking for someone to conceive in the United States and wants to abandon him has exploded in the Chinese circle, and even the Japanese media have reported the news that PRADA has terminated his contract with a Chinese actor looking for a surrogate in the United States.

There was a surrogacy storm in Japan many years ago. At that time, the incident of a celebrity looking for a surrogacy in the United States was also reported and discussed in the Japanese media, causing a social uproar.

Mr. and Mrs. Xiang Inu asked their surrogate mother to give birth to a pair of sons in the United States

It happened in 2003. Japanese entertainer Mr. and Mrs. Akei sought a surrogate mother in the United States and gave birth to twin boys in the United States in November 2003, but they were not accepted by traditional law. When the couple returned to Japan with their children to register, they were told that the two children were not born from The belly of Xiang Yaji, so they could not be counted as their children. The couple held several press conferences on the incident, while the twins still hold U.S. citizenship and are not legally recognized as the children of Mr. and Mrs. Xiangjing.

At that time, the Japanese media and society were sympathetic to the plight of Mr. and Mrs. Xiang I, and called on the government to update the provisions of the law. However, this law remains traditional in Japan, that is, it does not recognize the legality of "surrogate mothers".

Japan, which has always been conservative, why does everyone sympathize with this couple? It turned out that as early as September 2000, the artist xiang Yaji married for the first time after 6 years of marriage, and was found to have cervical cancer 5 months later and was forced to undergo uterine removal surgery.

In August 2002, Xiang Yaji went to the United States to seek a surrogate mother on the grounds that he wanted to leave her husband Nobuhiko Takada's excellent genetic cells, and the couple's artificially fertilized eggs were twice transplanted into the surrogate mother Cindy, but both failed.

In 2003, the third transplant was successful, and in November of the same year, Cindy gave birth to twin baby boys in the United States, all of whom were U.S. nationals according to the procedure. The cost of surrogacy is 6 million yen (about 360,000 yuan).

In January 2004, the couple submitted an application for registration of their child's birth to the Kyoto Government Area, but the other party said that they needed the judgment of the Ministry of Justice and refused to accept it. The Ministry of Justice noted that XiangJing was not the mother who gave birth to a child, so it did not recognize her as the mother of the child.

The couple was not convinced by this, and after appealing to the Tokyo Court, the couple went to the Supreme Court, and finally the two were still not legally recognized as the children's parents.

The Japanese media widely reported the incident, pointing out that the country's laws were not perfect, and the majority of media opinions believed that the government should update the legislation as soon as possible. Xiang Jing also repeatedly made remarks on his personal website questioning the inadmissibility of the tribunal. However, it is reported that the feedback retracted on its webpage is mostly overwhelming condemnation.

At present, the parent-child relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Xiangjing and their children is not recognized by Japanese law, but it can also be legally recognized if the special adopted child adoption system of the Japanese civil law is used. In addition, even if two children are currently U.S. citizens, they can also obtain Japanese citizenship through naturalization procedures.

The Japan Society of Obstetrician and Women's Science and the Japanese Ministry of Health, Health and Labor are opposed to surrogate childbirth. The reason is that it is dangerous and burdensome to a third party and violates the welfare of the child born.

In 2019, Xiang's two sons went to the United States to study — both are American nationals and should return to the United States to study. After that, if the nationality is chosen, it will be up to the children themselves to decide.

Although there were many sympathetic voices in society at that time, in the end, most of the traditional ones still made "surrogacy" illegal in Japan. Japanese people who are eager to have children still go to the United States, Russia, Ukraine and other countries to find surrogacy. In 2018, Japanese anchor Maruoka Izumi and his wife gave birth to a baby in Russia through surrogacy.