American Joint Committee for Assisting Japanese-American Orphans is an American private agency responsible for intracountry
adoption
Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting of another, usually a child, from that person's biological or legal parent or parents. Legal adoptions permanently transfer all rights and responsibilities, along with filiation, from ...
s of
Japanese-American children after
World War II. See also
Sweden v. Yamaguchi ''Sweden v. Yamaguchi'', otherwise known as ''in the matter of Marianne Wilson'', or ''in the matter of Mary Ann Vaughn'', is a highly complex decision in international family law which touches on questions in law still unresolved over fifty years ...
External links
Adoption History Project
Joint committees
Japan–United States relations
Japanese-American history
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