A PRACTICAL STUDY OF THE STIGUMA ON ASIAN MOTHER WITH "INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN" IN JAPAN

这项研究主要集中在与日本男性结婚并有孩子的亚洲女性中的菲律宾，这些孩子的父亲是日本人，而且生活在日本。研究的目的是发现和研究：(1)她们的日常生活和育儿问题；(2)国际婚姻中的关系；(3)菲律宾妇女及其子女的社会劣势；(4)她们对日本社会和家庭的适应。他们中的一些人来当艺人或赚钱，后来嫁给了一个日本人。(2)他们的婚姻结局显示了跨国婚姻的困难。他们中的许多人离婚或分居。(3)他们担心如果他们有问题可以从哪里得到帮助。(4)大学生的日语水平与其对日本社会和家庭的适应、对日本文化的理解和适应之间存在显著的相关关系。那些理解日语有困难的人更有可能在社会和家庭中感到孤立。那些难以理解日本文化的人在家庭中也更容易感到孤独和孤立。(5)在育儿方面，由于日语水平较低，他们难以理解学校文件。此外，菲律宾母亲很难管教孩子，因为她们无法理解日本的文化和价值观。(6)在日本社会中，他们感到对自己的歧视和偏见。(7)他们担心自己的孩子在学校可能会受到歧视。然而，超过一半的菲律宾母亲希望她们的孩子永远生活在日本，尽管她们承认在日本的“国际儿童”面临着许多困难。

This research is primarily focused on Philippines among Asian women who are married to Japanese men and have children whose father is Japanese, and who are living in Japan. The purpose of the research is to find and to study; (1) the problems of their everyday life and child-rearing, (2) relations within international marriage, (3) social disadvantages for Philippine women and their children, and (4) their adjustment to Japanese society as well as their family.The findings are as follows; (1) Most Philippine women come to Japan for marriage. Some of them come to work as an entertainer or to earn money, and later, marry a Japanese man. (2) The outcomes of their marriages show the difficulties of inter national marriage. Many of them get divorced or separated. (3) They worry about where they can get help if they have a problem. (4) There are significant correlations between their proficiency in Japanese and their adjustment to Japanese society as well as their family, and also between understanding Japanese culture and adjusting to it. Those persons who have difficulties understanding Japanese are more likely to feel isolated in society and in their family. Those persons who have difficulty understanding Japanese culture are also more likely to feel lonely and isolated within the family. (5) In reference to child-rearing, they have difficulty understanding the school documents because of their poor proficiency in Japanese. Also Philippine mothers have difficulty disciplining their children because they cannot understand Japanese culture and values. (6) They feel discrimination and prejudice against themselves in Japanese society. (7) They are worried about their children who may face discrimination at school. Yet, more than half of Philippine mothers want their children to live in Japan for good, despite of the fact that they acknowledge the many difficulties faced by "international children" in Japan.