What would happen in the Japanese culture in this situation?

Question:

A teenage (Japanese) boy gets his British girlfriend pregnant (he's living in Britain). They are both underage teenagers, but what would most likely happen to the boy? Just trying to see if different cultures would handle this situation. Real Japanese people's replies are also welcome - thank you!

Answer:

Contrary to popular belief, there is a wide variety of people in Japan with different ways of doing things and thinking about things.

I would say that in most situations that it would be up to the couple if they want to have an abortion or not. If so, it would be quietly done, probably without telling anyone at all, including family.

If they decided to keep the child, then they would discuss how to bring up the child. A likely scenario would be that the man would want to return to Japan where he knows he can get a full-time job to support his new family. It's also more common in Japan for women to raise their kids at home, so it wouldn't matter at first that the woman can't get a job in Japan. Over time she would learn Japanese anyway, so when the kid's older, she may choose to work.

That's just one scenario though. Japanese in general are quite accepting people. It would be odd for someone's teenage son to get his teenage girlfriend pregnant, but if it happened, and they chose to keep the kid, then so be it. Life goes on.