ISSJ assists adult adoptees for their tracing and searching journey. One of the adoptees of ISSJ who grew up in Hawaii had a dramatic reunion with his birth mother after 47 years. This touching story was also covered by Asahi Newspaper, one of Japan’s leading newspaper companies.

You can read their story from here for some time:

The Asahi Shimbun "Hawaii state senator meets birth mother after almost half a century" (July 6, 2015)

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/people/AJ201507060049