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Can you live alone at the age of 16 years old in your own house in japan?
If your parents died, can you live by yourself in you own house? Including your parents have left you with plenty of money to live off of.
Also, can you live alone in your own house if your parents had moved to another country for a job? I'm talking about if your in Japan!
Thanks! This is just for a story and I know not everything in anime is accurate about living alone
2 Answers
- thecheapest902Lv 77 years ago
If you are under 20 in Japan, someone must have your custody. If your parents are dead, you or your relatives can claim at a court to choose someone as your guardian. But without this process, you do not have any guardian and you can live alone.
In fact, if you are under 15, you are still going to a school (compulsory level). So you are most likely to be put in a sort of orphanage.
>Also, can you live alone in your own house if your parents had moved to another country for a job?
This is not so uncommon that parents send their kid to a school at a distant place (including within Japan) alone.
- Madame MLv 77 years ago
Fictionally, they usually get around this with a butler. For example, Hanawa-kun, the tragically hip boy in Chibi-Maruko, rarely sees his parents. His butler takes care of him and makes sure everything is OK.
There was some other drama where the young woman (she might have been over 18) is guided by her butler in life decisions. I think her parents were dead. (The butler was played by Sakurai-kun, I think -- from the music group Arashi.)
