A working group of the Justice Ministry’s Legislative Council on April 18 agreed to consider introducing a joint child-custody system ... to be reviewed in some form.” Many group members ...

Joint custody of children after divorce is one ... not allowing a divorce to go through unless there was agreement about child support and visitation rights; allowing for automatic child support ...

TOKYO — Japan’s parliament on Friday passed a revision to the country’s civil code that will allow divorced parents the option of joint child custody ... decision if an agreement cannot ...