“Infertile couple hires poor Japanese woman for illegal ¥10 million surrogacy using husband's sperm and surrogate's eggs.”
Tsubame wa Modottekonai
燕は戻ってこない
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Infertile couple hires poor Japanese woman for illegal ¥10 million surrogacy using husband's sperm and surrogate's eggs.
Kusaokes have spent several years undergoing fertility treatment without success. As the wife Yūko is getting older and she has been told she will have difficulties carrying a pregnancy to full term, they ask an agent to arrange a surrogate pregnancy using the husband Motoki’s sperm and the surrogate mother’s eggs. Both want a child with Japanese DNA, and therefore a Japanese surrogate mother—which is an expensive, illegal business. Riki, who takes on the surrogacy role, has come to Tokyo from Hokkaidō. She is scraping by on ¥82,000 a month, working in a nonregular job, and sees the chance of getting paid ¥10 million as unmissable. (Source: nippon.com)
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A Novel Publication
- Format 5 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 0h 40m approx
- Published Mar 2022 – ongoing
- Source Novel media type
- Ref. BS-M79316 catalog