Date	Summary	Court	Japanese	English
2004	a) Case A: Japanese Mother Non-Japanese Father. i) Foreign father granted weekly visitation. ii) Other details unknown at this time.		source: local	source: local
???	b) Case B: Japanese Mother Non-Japanese Father.. i) Mother gets custody of two children about 8 and 10 years old. ii) Children will be educated in Japan. iii) Both children spend weekends (Sat and Sun) with father. iv) About two times per week, father may accompany children to school. v) Once, during either summer, winter or spring vacation, father may take children on vacation back to home country. vi) Father pays 50,000 yen per month child support. (This was accompanied by a one time alimony payment of 1,300,000 yen.)		source: local	source: local
	Father asked for 1 day per month and was forced to negotiate down to 2 hours every other month, which mother refused. But lots of detail in this Supreme Court decision.	Supreme Court	source: local	source: local

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