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Ichiro & Rei are hopeful adoptive parents from Virginia waiting to adopt a baby.

If you are pregnant and considering placing your child for adoption, please read the following Dear Birthmother Letter.

Dear Birth Mother We would like to thank you for the opportunity to share our story with you. We imagine this must be a very emotional time for you and we admire your strength and courage for considering adoption for your baby. We believe that your decision is a result of your great love and concern for your baby. We wish that you will find peace when you make your ultimate choice. We promise you will receive our support in whatever way we can, and private time for you to decide what's best for you and your baby.

We will totally be open to you, listening to whatever your opinions and concerns. Please ask anything that you want to know more about us, after reading our brief introduction as follows.

About Us Our Marriage
Ichiro and Rei met in a governmental agency in Japan, where both of us started to work after graduating university. In addition to working as colleagues in the same department, we also belonged to the dance club, and danced as partners. We got to know each other, and fell in love. We have been happily married since 1996. In the last 9 years, we had moved back and forth between the US and Japan several times due to job assignments of Ichiro, and finally decided to settle in the US in 2005. We liked the challenges of living in a multicultural environment as well as the life style in the US, where the society is more family oriented.

Since our marriage, we have wanted to build a large family and have been longing for a child. When we had the opportunity to meet several adoptive families, where parents and children were strongly connected through love, we were convinced that adoption was the choice for us. After enormous efforts and ups and downs, in December 2006, we were blessed by adopting a six month old boy, Yuta, from Taiwan. Since Yuta became a member of our family, our life has become more magnificent and fulfilled, full of joy and happiness. As we enjoy every moment of being with Yuta and are happy to see his growth, our wonderful experience of adopting Yuta is making us feel that we are ready to welcome one more family member to further extend the family bond and happiness. Based on our first experience of adoption, we are confident that we will be able provide unconditional love and a supportive environment to our new baby, too.

Ichiro
Ichiro is very diligent and makes every effort to achieve his goals. He is always highly motivated and gains trusts from his friends and colleagues. Ichiro is also a very sociable person and fond of making friends. Ichiro's profession has been supporting people in poverty in developing countries, which has brought us to Washington DC, where he works at an international organization. Ichiro likes sports, and he played soccer for a long time. Now, he enjoys playing it together with Yuta. As Ichiro is very nice father, always enjoying playing with Yuta. Yuta really likes his father and he rushes to the door when Ichiro returns to home. Though Ichiro has much responsibility in his job, he always spares time to play with Yuta. As both of us are working, Ichiro is willing to share as much responsibility as possible in parenting, and encourages Rei to keep her job. In this way, he has always been very supportive and caring husband.

Rei
Rei is a very calm person and always gentle to everyone. While she is sincere and stable, she is also optimistic and cheerful. She has always been flexible and supportive throughout our lives together, and she has the capacity to find the bright side of any situation. I am grateful for her very positive and caring attitude. She is interested in and fully dedicated to many things. She now works at a travel agency, which has been her dream job for long time given her love for travel. She is also fond of the arts. She not only plays the piano herself and appreciates performing arts, such as operas & musical, but also studied arts management in graduate school, and worked at arts organizations before. She also loves cooking and baking, and she cannot wait to make heart-filled cookies and cakes for our new baby. Being a wonderful mother and an educator of Yuta, Rei finds great joy in taking care of him. She prepares excellent nutritious foods (most of them are Asian foods), and teaches him many things with love, encouraging him to be independent and to grow as a strong man. I always admire her as a great caring mom.

Yuta
Yuta is a very happy boy, and is the sunshine in our family. He likes people, and is very friendly. He smiles back to everyone who talks to him. Now he is learning a lot of words and enjoys communicating with his vocabulary. He likes going out to parks, playing with balls, and watching airplanes and trucks. He also likes to read books, sitting on our knee. He is very cheerful and funny. His smile gives us great joy. From this February, he is in a preschool near our home. He has many friends and he likes to play with them. We believe that he will be a good big brother to our new baby!

Family Life Ichiro and Rei enjoy doing various activities together. Traveling is one of our favorite activities. Since our marriage, we have been traveling many countries. In the US, we love visiting charming places in the Southern part of the US, as we once lived in Durham, North Carolina. Among other places, Europe and East Asia, including Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam, are our favorite destinations. We also like getting together with our friends, eating at local restaurants or visiting each other's house on weekends. In addition to our Japanese and American friends, we have friends from Asia, Latin America, and Europe. We are also very fond of reading books, magazines and papers. Going to local libraries is one of our favorite weekend activities. When the weather is nice, we enjoy walking and playing tennis. We always have big celebration on anniversaries, birthdays, and the family day when Yuta joined in our family.

Last year, we bought a small fancy house in a quiet neighborhood in the northern Arlington, VA. Yuta loves running at the nice backyard and playing at the sunny family room. We enjoy cooking outside and relaxing at the screened porch as well. Our house is very close to places where Ichiro and Rei work, and in an excellent school district, which offers best schools in the area. Given these privileges, we can spend more time with our children and provide them with a good education. We have a bedroom in the second floor which is waiting for a new small occupant.

Both of our families, parents, and brothers and sisters, live in Tokyo, Japan. Ichiro has a sister and Rei has two brothers, and all of them are married and have children. We are very close, and every time we visit Japan, our families get together at the parents' house. Our families were so excited about Yuta joining in our family. When we introduced Yuta to our families in Japan just after adopting him in Taiwan, they literally fell in love with him and celebrated us for expanding our family. When we visited them again last year, they were amazed to see how Yuta has grown!!

Patenting Thoughts and Thank You Patenting Thoughts
We always share our thoughts at any time and have been making decisions together. We strive to build a family where we can openly discuss anything and support each other whenever needed. We also desire to have a family where we are always very close and happiness is found everywhere. We believe that parental love is the most important thing we have to offer to our children. We are determined to love our children in any occasion, and to provide the necessary support, such as a stable family environment and a high quality education for our children to become healthy and responsible adults. Particularly, we believe that our Asian heritages and the multi cultural environment that we enjoy in Washington DC will be great assets to our children growing up in the diverse and inter-connected world of today. We are determined to make every effort to guide our children to the right direction.

Thank you
We sincerely thank you for taking time to read our profile. Please contact us and ask any question about our family, so that we can further explain who we are and address any concerns you might have. If you decide that adoption is the right choice for you, we would be honored if you considered us as parents for your baby. We would be very excited if we could meet in person before the baby is born, and we are open to creating the kind of relationship that you want for the baby's future. If you ultimately place your baby for adoption with us, he or she will know how he or she became a member of our family and learn from us about your unconditional love and tremendous courage. In our culture, it is believed that some invisible power unites those who are destined to meet. As it did when we adopted Yuta, we would be very grateful if such power leads us to you and your baby, and we can build an expanded family fully connected with love.

We look forward to hearing from you and wish you all the best.

Please contact Ichiro & Rei