Mother in her 30s at 14 years old, running a Made Cafe with her daughter...We're sisters and friends
Sep 09, 2025
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Their special stories are introduced on video and have more than 12 million views.
According to Japanese media Oricon News and Hong Kong media South China Morning Post, Yuka, a 37-year-old woman, co-operates a made-themed cafe with her 23-year-old daughter.
Made Cafe is a unique themed cafe that began in Japanese animation and game culture in the early 2000s, and it is a space where employees dressed in Victorian-style Made provide emotional comfort to customers. Physical contact is prohibited.
This cafe is a business that was started to realize her daughter's long-standing dream.
Yuka confessed to giving birth to her daughter when she was 14 in an interview with Oricon News.
Yuka, who was 13 at the time, didn't know she was pregnant due to irregular menstrual cycles, and she found out through a pregnancy test as her stomach filled up.
Yuka, who was an adolescent, did not tell her parents that she was pregnant, but only told one friend.
I hid my stomach in loose clothes, and I avoided contact with my family using tutoring as an excuse.
Later, after her parents eventually found out that she was pregnant, Yuka underwent a prenatal examination and eventually gave birth to a daughter at the age of 14. However, it did not reveal who the daughter's father was.
In 2023, Japan raised the age of sexual consent from 13 to 16 through the revision of laws related to sex crimes. Sex with under the age of 13 is subject to more than five years in prison regardless of consent.
After giving birth, Yuka finished middle school with the help of her parents and relatives, and later attended a beauty school and worked part-time at a beauty salon. At the age of 19, he started a hair salon based on savings and family support, raising children and working at the same time.
Yuka said she considered 'communication' with her daughter the most important thing in the child-rearing process.
"It's not right to be angry with a child. We need to try to look at it from a child's point of view. He also gave advice on parenting.
The daughter is like a friend and sister to Yuka.
After their daughter graduated from high school, they opened a Made Cafe together.
She did not elaborate on the cafe's profits, but Yuka said, `The business has deepened my bond with my daughter.' `Now that she is leading the business well, I want to go back to being a full-time housewife and apply as a mother in the background," he said.
Their stories spread rapidly through SNS, bringing about various reactions.
Netizens are posting comments such as "Mothering at a young age, going through unimaginable pain even with the help of her family" and "I really admire that a young mother fulfilled her responsibilities and raised her daughter brilliantly" and "Teenage pregnancy and childbirth should not be glorified"."
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
