mr.sumo snr. <mr_sumo@hotmail.com> wrote:
> "Haluk Skywalker" <yokoolebiri@spam.net> wrote in message
> news:btf66b$6p1mb$1@ID-201738.news.uni-berlin.de...
>> Look what I found and don't piss your BYJW off:

>> Divorce your Japanese wife - and lose your kids
>> IT'S 'Bye bye, children' if you are a foreigner going through a divorce in
>> Japan.

> I wonder what the situation is for foreign wives of Japanese nationals.
> Something tells me that the Japanese parent will always have the advantage.

Perhaps, but if the mother took off with the kids, I get the impression 
there'd be little (read, NO) help from Japanese officialdom

> Simple rules of course.  Don't marry a 'nutter'.  Don't get obsessed with
> your wife taking your family name or the fact that your children will also
> have a different family name.  Register your child's birth in your home
> country - there you can call him/her whatever you like (though for UKland
> you'll need the mother's consent if the name is different). Oh yeah...and
> don't marry a 'nutter'...

NOW he tells me...

Mike