Hi there,
I'm sorry for not responding sooner. I rarely am able to check this forum. I really don't know much about adopting from Japan while living in Japan. It sounds like there may be different rules in that situation and it's ironic that it seems to be more complicated than adopting a Japanese child while living in the U.S.
I will PM you with the name of our agency. They are wonderful and we adopted both of our wonderful daughters through them. Our daughter from Japan is actually of full Japanese heritage, though it would not have mattered to us at all if she had been of mixed ethnicity (afterall, our daughter from Kazakhstan is a beautiful mixture of many cultures :-) )
Our agency works with a birth mother program and there are certain criteria that parents should meet (as with most IA programs). The best thing to do would be to talk to our agency to find out if their program is a good fit for you
Please feel free to write to me at
gecech@yahoo.com if you have any other questions or if you'd like to access our blog. Best of luck to you!!