...writes " It is strange, but true, that you may often go into a Japanese family and find halfa-dozen persons calling each other parent and child, brother...different degrees from those conventionally assumed." Adoption in different systems of law may be classified with regard to its object, wider t lie following...

...HOUSE LIVES It is strange, but true, that you may often go into a Japanese family and find half a dozen persons calling each other parent and child, brother...sister, uncle and nephew, and yet being really either no blood relations at all, or else relations assumed in quite different degrees from those conventionally...

...relations assumed in quite different degrees from those conventionally assumed. Galtou's books coulfi never have been written in Japan; for though genealogies...point of view — so universal is the practice of t adoption from the top of society to the bottom. This it is which explains such apparent anomalies...

...writes: "It is strange, but true, that you may often go into a Japanese family and find half-a-dozen persons calling each other parent and child, brother...sister, uncle and nephew, and yet being really either no blood relations at all, or else relations in quite different degrees from those conventionally assumed."...

...parent and child, brother and sister, uncle and nephew, and yet being really either no blood relations at all, or else relations in quite different degrees from those conventionally assumed." Adoption in different systems of law may be classified with regard to its object, under the following...

...strange but true," says Chamberlain,* "that you may go often into a Japanese family and find half a dozen persons calling each other parent and child, brother...sister, uncle and nephew, and yet being really either no blood relation at all, or else relations in quite different degrees from those conventionally assumed....

...parent and child, brother and sister, uncle and nephew, and yet being really either no blood relation at all, or else relations in quite different degrees from those conventionally assumed . . . Adoption is resorted to, not only to prevent the extinction of families and the consequent neglect...

...this: 'It is strange, but true, that you may often go into a Japanese family and find half-a-dozen persons calling each other parent and child, brother...different degrees from those conventionally assumed' (1971: 17). The subversion of the blood family which this caused, and the turning of the family into...

...writes 'It is strange, but true, that you may often go into a Japanese family and find half-a-dozen persons calling each other parent and child, brother...quite different degrees from those conventionally assumed.'"219 The Meiji Civil Code stipulated the following conditions for an adoption: the adopting...