GI Baby
A GI Baby is a child born to a Japanese woman by a military servicemember of the Allied Occupation Forces of Japan.
GI Babies were typically orphans due to the difficulties raising such children, and were also called "mixed orphans". Because the British Federal Occupation Force had taken measures to prohibit dating with non-white women from the viewpoint of racism, the soldiers could not obtain permission to marry a Japanese woman. If it was discovered that a child was born in violation of this, the child was forcibly separated from the family. The ban was abolished in 1952, and hundreds of war brides went to Australia and Britain, but it was reported that in many cases, tragedy still occurred.
Statistics
The Ministry of Health in Japan established Miki Kano on 13 August 1952, consisting of 20 experts Mixed-race child problem countermeasure study group. According to the summary of the Kanagawa Prefectural Council of Social Welfare in 1952, there were 276 children of mixed-race in the facility in the prefecture, which was the majority of the mixed-race children in Japan at that time Child Welfare Facility.According to a survey conducted by Ministry of Health and Welfare in 1953, there were 4972 GI babies in Japan. Meanwhile, at that time Elizabeth Saunders Home founder Miki Sawada announced the theory of 200,000 GI babies, but according to a survey by the Pearl S. Buck Foundation, the actual number is very high. Although it is difficult to grasp, it was said that there would actually be at least 20,000 to 30,000 GI babies in Japan at that time.
According to the Diet response to the question of Shinkichi Ukeda in 1959 Koun Takataa, as of 1959, the Ministry of Health and Welfare has counted the number of mixed-race children in Japan.