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- From: kimata@convex.com (Hiroki Kimata)
- Subject: Re: Children vs Corporation
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:17:33 GMT
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- In <7934@skye.ed.ac.uk> timd@ed.ac.uk (Tim Duncan) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov16.162431.2241@island.COM>, fester@island.COM (Mike Fester) writes:
-
- >|> An interesting aspect of this is that if you have a child in Japan, and the
- >|> child can be considered legally Japanese, most cities pay you a
- >|> "congratulatory" sum of anywhere from Y120,000 to Y200,000.
-
- >Most cities? I don't think so. Maybe a few underpopulated areas (due to the
- >large number of younger generation who have moved to Tokyo area for jobs) will
- >offer "congratulatory" payments to encourage settlement, but you won't find that
- >in any of the larger cities (eg: Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Nagoya etc). However, it
- >is quite common for health insurance unions to give congratulatory sums.
-
- > -- Tim
-
- I've seen an article on newspaper which tells that several ward in
- central Tokyo offer such kinda "congratulatory" payments.
- I think "underpopulated area" include center of Tokyo,where residential
- areas are changed into commercial areas.
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