My husband and I have a biological son, but after many years of infertility we adopted 2 girls while living here in Hong Kong,thy are now 23 and 20 and attending university. Overseas adoptions are very expensive,most likely Japan does not have very many oversea adoptions,from my knowledge. Mine was done in Hong Kong through the social welfare dept. We could never have done this financially by living in the states,but were lucky to go through the process here.